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title = "{MAMK}it: A Comprehensive Multimodal Argument Mining Toolkit",
author = "Mancini, Eleonora and
Ruggeri, Federico and
Colamonaco, Stefano and
Zecca, Andrea and
Marro, Samuele and
Torroni, Paolo",
editor = "Ajjour, Yamen and
Bar-Haim, Roy and
El Baff, Roxanne and
Liu, Zhexiong and
Skitalinskaya, Gabriella",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2024)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.argmining-1.7",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.argmining-1.7",
pages = "69--82",
abstract = "Multimodal Argument Mining (MAM) is a recent area of research aiming to extend argument analysis and improve discourse understanding by incorporating multiple modalities. Initial results confirm the importance of paralinguistic cues in this field. However, the research community still lacks a comprehensive platform where results can be easily reproduced, and methods and models can be stored, compared, and tested against a variety of benchmarks. To address these challenges, we propose MAMKit, an open, publicly available, PyTorch toolkit that consolidates datasets and models, providing a standardized platform for experimentation. MAMKit also includes some new baselines, designed to stimulate research on text and audio encoding and fusion for MAM tasks. Our initial results with MAMKit indicate that advancements in MAM require novel annotation processes to encompass auditory cues effectively.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T MAMKit: A Comprehensive Multimodal Argument Mining Toolkit
%A Mancini, Eleonora
%A Ruggeri, Federico
%A Colamonaco, Stefano
%A Zecca, Andrea
%A Marro, Samuele
%A Torroni, Paolo
%Y Ajjour, Yamen
%Y Bar-Haim, Roy
%Y El Baff, Roxanne
%Y Liu, Zhexiong
%Y Skitalinskaya, Gabriella
%S Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2024)
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F mancini-etal-2024-mamkit
%X Multimodal Argument Mining (MAM) is a recent area of research aiming to extend argument analysis and improve discourse understanding by incorporating multiple modalities. Initial results confirm the importance of paralinguistic cues in this field. However, the research community still lacks a comprehensive platform where results can be easily reproduced, and methods and models can be stored, compared, and tested against a variety of benchmarks. To address these challenges, we propose MAMKit, an open, publicly available, PyTorch toolkit that consolidates datasets and models, providing a standardized platform for experimentation. MAMKit also includes some new baselines, designed to stimulate research on text and audio encoding and fusion for MAM tasks. Our initial results with MAMKit indicate that advancements in MAM require novel annotation processes to encompass auditory cues effectively.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.argmining-1.7
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.argmining-1.7
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.argmining-1.7
%P 69-82
Markdown (Informal)
[MAMKit: A Comprehensive Multimodal Argument Mining Toolkit](https://aclanthology.org/2024.argmining-1.7) (Mancini et al., ArgMining 2024)
ACL
- Eleonora Mancini, Federico Ruggeri, Stefano Colamonaco, Andrea Zecca, Samuele Marro, and Paolo Torroni. 2024. MAMKit: A Comprehensive Multimodal Argument Mining Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2024), pages 69–82, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.