Eva Cantín Larumbe


2025

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Argumentative Fallacy Detection in Political Debates
Eva Cantín Larumbe | Adriana Chust Vendrell
Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop

Building on recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), this work addresses the task of fallacy detection in political debates using a multimodal approach combining text and audio, as well as text-only and audio-only approaches. Although the multimodal setup is novel, results show that text-based models consistently outperform both audio-only and multimodal models, confirming that textual information remains the most effective for this task. Transformer-based and few-shot architectures were used to detect fallacies. While fine-tuned language models demonstrate strong performance, challenges such as data imbalance, audio processing, and limited dataset size persist.