Overview of ImageArg-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining

Zhexiong Liu, Mohamed Elaraby, Yang Zhong, Diane Litman


Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the ImageArg shared task, the first multimodal Argument Mining shared task co-located with the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining at EMNLP 2023. The shared task comprises two classification subtasks - (1) Subtask-A: Argument Stance Classification; (2) Subtask-B: Image Persuasiveness Classification. The former determines the stance of a tweet containing an image and a piece of text toward a controversial topic (e.g., gun control and abortion). The latter determines whether the image makes the tweet text more persuasive. The shared task received 31 submissions for Subtask-A and 21 submissions for Subtask-B from 9 different teams across 6 countries. The top submission in Subtask-A achieved an F1-score of 0.8647 while the best submission in Subtask-B achieved an F1-score of 0.5561.
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2023.argmining-1.12
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Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Milad Alshomary, Chung-Chi Chen, Smaranda Muresan, Joonsuk Park, Julia Romberg
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ArgMining | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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120–132
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.argmining-1.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.argmining-1.12
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Zhexiong Liu, Mohamed Elaraby, Yang Zhong, and Diane Litman. 2023. Overview of ImageArg-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 120–132, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Overview of ImageArg-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining (Liu et al., ArgMining-WS 2023)
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