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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…
Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures
Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt +1
In conversation, humans use multimodal cues, such as speech, gestures, and gaze, to manage turn-taking. While linguistic and acoustic features are informative, gestures provide com…
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,…