Video Speaking Style Recognition (VSSR) aims to classify conversation videos into different types, significantly facilitating human interaction understanding. Recent approaches explore the potential of large language models (LLM) in VSSR with a training-free process. However, directly integrating all multimodal data yields suboptimal results, since the great redundancy in visual data can overshadow other valuable multimodal information, such as valuable textual dialogues and critical visual clues. To address this, we propose CFMiS (Coarse-to-Fine Multimodal Information Selection), a novel framework for VSSR that dynamically obtain valuable multimodal data via coarse-to-fine selection, enhancing LLM reasoning for VSSR. Specifically, the core of CFMiS are two cascaded modules: 1) a text-dominant modality selection module firstly selects VSSR-required modalities originating from text-based prediction; and 2) if vision is included in the selected modalities, a visual refinement module iteratively collects VSSR-relevant critical visual clues. The former resolves which modality to utilize, while the latter determines which information to adopt from selected modalities, efficiently alleviating information redundancy. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets prove that CFMiS is highly effective for VSSR, outperforming all existing training-free approaches and most training-based methods.

Chinese sentences are written as sequences of characters, which are elementary units of syntax and semantics. Characters are highly polysemous in forming words. We present a position-sensitive skip-gram model to learn multi-prototype Chinese character embeddings, and explore the usefulness of such character embeddings to Chinese NLP tasks. Evaluation on character similarity shows that multi-prototype embeddings are significantly better than a single-prototype baseline. In addition, used as features in the Chinese NER task, the embeddings result in a 1.74% F-score improvement over a state-of-the-art baseline.