ArtELingo: A Million Emotion Annotations of WikiArt with Emphasis on Diversity over Language and Culture
It addresses the problem of limited multilingual and cultural diversity in emotion annotation datasets for AI research, though it is incremental by building on an existing dataset.
The paper introduces ArtELingo, a dataset expanding ArtEmis with 0.79M emotion annotations in Arabic and Chinese and 4.8K in Spanish to study cultural diversity, and finds that this diversity improves baseline model performance in captioning tasks.
This paper introduces ArtELingo, a new benchmark and dataset, designed to encourage work on diversity across languages and cultures. Following ArtEmis, a collection of 80k artworks from WikiArt with 0.45M emotion labels and English-only captions, ArtELingo adds another 0.79M annotations in Arabic and Chinese, plus 4.8K in Spanish to evaluate "cultural-transfer" performance. More than 51K artworks have 5 annotations or more in 3 languages. This diversity makes it possible to study similarities and differences across languages and cultures. Further, we investigate captioning tasks, and find diversity improves the performance of baseline models. ArtELingo is publicly available at https://www.artelingo.org/ with standard splits and baseline models. We hope our work will help ease future research on multilinguality and culturally-aware AI.