4 papers
MUStReason: A Benchmark for Diagnosing Pragmatic Reasoning in Video-LMs for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Anisha Saha, Varsha Suresh, Timothy Hospedales +1
Sarcasm is a specific type of irony which involves discerning what is said from what is meant. Detecting sarcasm depends not only on the literal content of an utterance but also on…
GestureCoach: Rehearsing for Engaging Talks with LLM-Driven Gesture Recommendations
Ashwin Ram, Varsha Suresh, Artin Saberpour Abadian +2
This paper introduces GestureCoach, a system designed to help speakers deliver more engaging talks by guiding them to gesture effectively during rehearsal. GestureCoach combines an…
Synthetic Data Augmentation for Cross-domain Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Frances Yung, Varsha Suresh, Zaynab Reza +2
Implicit discourse relation recognition (IDRR) -- the task of identifying the implicit coherence relation between two text spans -- requires deep semantic understanding. Recent stu…
Enhancing Spoken Discourse Modeling in Language Models Using Gestural Cues
Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt +1
Research in linguistics shows that non-verbal cues, such as gestures, play a crucial role in spoken discourse. For example, speakers perform hand gestures to indicate topic shifts,…