IUST at ImageArg: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining

Melika Nobakhtian, Ghazal Zamaninejad, Erfan Moosavi Monazzah, Sauleh Eetemadi

Abstract: ImageArg is a shared task at the 10th ArgMining Workshop at EMNLP 2023. It leverages the ImageArg dataset to advance multimodal persuasiveness techniques. This challenge comprises two distinct subtasks: 1) Argumentative Stance (AS) Classification: Assessing whether a given tweet adopts an argumentative stance. 2) Image Persuasiveness (IP) Classification: Determining if the tweet image enhances the persuasive quality of the tweet. We conducted various experiments on both subtasks and ranked sixth out of the nine participating teams.