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5 papers

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Spoken Sarcasm Understanding

Zhu Li, Xiyuan Gao, Yuqing Zhang +2

Sarcasm detection remains a challenge in natural language understanding, as sarcastic intent often relies on subtle cross-modal cues spanning text, speech, and vision. While prior…

cs.CL2025

Spoken in Jest, Detected in Earnest: A Systematic Review of Sarcasm Recognition -- Multimodal Fusion, Challenges, and Future Prospects

Xiyuan Gao, Shekhar Nayak, Matt Coler

Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance…

cs.CL2025

Overcoming Data Scarcity in Multi-Dialectal Arabic ASR via Whisper Fine-Tuning

Ömer Tarik Özyilmaz, Matt Coler, Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Although commercial Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems support Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), they struggle with dialectal speech. We investigate the effect of fine-t…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Standard and Dialectal Frisian ASR: Multilingual Fine-tuning and Language Identification for Improved Low-resource Performance

Reihaneh Amooie, Wietse de Vries, Yun Hao +3

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance for low-resource languages is still far behind that of higher-resource languages such as English, due to a lack of sufficient labeled…

cs.CL2024

AMuSeD: An Attentive Deep Neural Network for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Incorporating Bi-modal Data Augmentation

Xiyuan Gao, Shubhi Bansal, Kushaan Gowda +4

Detecting sarcasm effectively requires a nuanced understanding of context, including vocal tones and facial expressions. The progression towards multimodal computational methods in…