Multimodal Fallacy Classification in Political Debates
Eleonora Mancini, Federico Ruggeri, Paolo Torroni
Main: Factual Content in NLP Oral Paper
Session 2: Factual Content in NLP (Oral)
Conference Room: Marie Louise 1
Conference Time: March 18, 11:00-12:30 (CET) (Europe/Malta)
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Abstract:
Recent advances in NLP suggest that some tasks, such as argument detection and relation classification, are better framed in a multimodal perspective. We propose multimodal argument mining for argumentative fallacy classification in political debates. To this end, we release the first corpus for multimodal fallacy classification. Our experiments show that the integration of the audio modality leads to superior classification performance. Our findings confirm that framing fallacy classification as a multimodal task is essential to capturing paralinguistic aspects of fallacious arguments.