Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper)

Santiago Castro, Devamanyu Hazarika, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria


Abstract
Sarcasm is often expressed through several verbal and non-verbal cues, e.g., a change of tone, overemphasis in a word, a drawn-out syllable, or a straight looking face. Most of the recent work in sarcasm detection has been carried out on textual data. In this paper, we argue that incorporating multimodal cues can improve the automatic classification of sarcasm. As a first step towards enabling the development of multimodal approaches for sarcasm detection, we propose a new sarcasm dataset, Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset (MUStARD), compiled from popular TV shows. MUStARD consists of audiovisual utterances annotated with sarcasm labels. Each utterance is accompanied by its context of historical utterances in the dialogue, which provides additional information on the scenario where the utterance occurs. Our initial results show that the use of multimodal information can reduce the relative error rate of sarcasm detection by up to 12.9% in F-score when compared to the use of individual modalities. The full dataset is publicly available for use at https://github.com/soujanyaporia/MUStARD.
Anthology ID:
P19-1455
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4619–4629
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1455
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1455
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Cite (ACL):
Santiago Castro, Devamanyu Hazarika, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea, and Soujanya Poria. 2019. Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper). In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4619–4629, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An Obviously Perfect Paper) (Castro et al., ACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1455.pdf
Poster:
 P19-1455.Poster.pdf
Code
 soujanyaporia/MUStARD
Data
MUStARDMELD