Detecting vocal irony

Felix Burkhardt, Benjamin Weiss, Florian Eyben, Jun Deng, Björn Schuller

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Abstract

We describe a data collection for vocal expression of ironic utterances and anger based on an Android app that was specifically developed for this study. The main aim of the investigation is to find evidence for a non-verbal expression of irony. A data set of 937 utterances was collected and labeled by six listeners for irony and anger. The automatically recognized textual content was labeled for sentiment. We report on experiments to classify ironic utterances based on sentiment and tone-of-voice. Baseline results show that an ironic voice can be detected automatically solely based on acoustic features in 69.3 UAR (unweighted average recall) and anger with 64.1 UAR. The performance drops by about 4% when it is calculated with a leave-one-speaker-out cross validation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLanguage Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age - 27th International Conference, GSCL 2017,Proceedings
EditorsGeorg Rehm, Thierry Declerck
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages11-22
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319737058
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event27th International Conference on German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 13 Sep 201714 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10713 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period13/09/1714/09/17

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