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New multimodal dataset MultiHuSE aims to improve AI's understanding of humor

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Researchers have introduced MultiHuSE, a new multimodal dataset designed to advance the computational recognition of humor. The dataset contains 2,407 videos of 50 actors performing 1,463 text samples across four psychological humor styles and neutral content, with a subset also annotated for emotions. Initial experiments demonstrate that multimodal fusion approaches outperform unimodal methods in classifying humor styles, particularly for affiliative humor, indicating the value of combining visual and textual data. AI

IMPACT This dataset could enable more nuanced AI models for understanding and generating humor, impacting human-AI interaction.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Foaad Khosmood, Abbas Edalat ·

    MultiHuSE: A Multimodal Dataset for Humour Styles and Emotions

    arXiv:2609.11322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational recognition of verbal humour remains a challenging task, requiring an understanding of language, delivery style, emotions, and cultural context. Most existing approaches focus on binary classification and lack datasets…

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