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Multilingual Multimodal Detection of Humour in Stand-Up Comedy
Kuznetsova, Anna ; Holub, Martin (advisor) ; Krubiński, Mateusz (referee)
This thesis focuses on the multimodal and multilingual detection of humor in stand- up comedy videos. A novel multilingual dataset was collected, primarily targeting the Russian language, to address the lack of specific multimodal datasets for humor detection in this language. The dataset was obtained from stand-up comedy videos with subtitles sourced from YouTube. The thesis investigates various aspects of the data preparation process, including word-level forced alignment, segmentation, and labeling with laughter detection. Two automatic laughter detection approaches are explored: the peak detection approach, which employs preprocessed voiceless audio and an energy-based peak detec- tion algorithm with clusterization filtering, and the machine learning approach, which utilizes a pretrained model to detect laughter presence and duration. Results indicate that for now the machine learning approach outperforms the peak detection approach in terms of accuracy and generalization, however the peak detection approach is considered promising. Additionally, thesis delves into the unimodal textual and multimodal humor detection on the new dataset. The results demonstrate the ability of neural models to capture humour in both languages even in the textual only setting. While multimodal experiments showed that even...
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English present perfect in translation from Czech
Kuznetsova, Anna ; Šaldová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Vašků, Kateřina (referee)
This BA thesis deals with the tense which has no direct counterpart in the Czech language, i.e. the present perfect tense. There is only one past tense in Czech in contrast to the three in English: perfect, preterite, pluperfect (simple and progressive forms). Those tenses differ in the time zone they refer to. It is also important to mention that the temporal meaning of a verb can be influenced by context, e.g. presence of an adverbial. The thesis summarizes the theoretical background of the present perfect and the present perfect progressive. In the analytical part 137 authentic examples excerpted with the ParaConc software are sorted according to the meaning of the present perfect and consequently analysed according to their morphological structure, semantics and pragmatics (comparing the Czech sources and the English translations). The conditions which lead to the use of the perfect tense when translated from Czech are then deduced.
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English present perfect in translation from Czech
Kuznetsova, Anna ; Šaldová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Vašků, Kateřina (referee)
This BA thesis deals with the tense which has no direct counterpart in the Czech language, i.e. the present perfect tense. There is only one past tense in Czech in contrast to the three in English: perfect, preterite, pluperfect (simple and progressive forms). Those tenses differ in the time zone they refer to. It is also important to mention that the temporal meaning of a verb can be influenced by context, e.g. presence of an adverbial. The thesis summarizes the theoretical background of the present perfect and the present perfect progressive. In the analytical part 137 authentic examples excerpted with the ParaConc software are sorted according to the meaning of the present perfect and consequently analysed according to their morphological structure, semantics and pragmatics (comparing the Czech sources and the English translations). The conditions which lead to the use of the perfect tense when translated from Czech are then deduced.
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Coaching as a leadership and development method of the employees of an organization
Kuznetsova, Anna ; Stříteský, Marek (advisor) ; Šikýř, Martin (referee)
Coaching is one of the most effective methods of leadership and development. This thesis concentrates on different aspects of coaching, mainly, on internal coaching in the working environment. The goal of the thesis is to evaluate internal coaching in practice. The goal is fulfilled by describing internal coaching in T-Mobile, showing the savings generated by internal coaching in comparison to the external and by evaluating the feedback given by the coachees. Theoretical part gives a review of coaching applications, methods, tools, presents the coaching leadership style and serves as a basis for the practical part, which concentrates on T-Mobile.
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