@inproceedings{wang-etal-2024-multiclimate,
    title = "{M}ulti{C}limate: Multimodal Stance Detection on Climate Change Videos",
    author = "Wang, Jiawen  and
      Zuo, Longfei  and
      Peng, Siyao  and
      Plank, Barbara",
    editor = "Dementieva, Daryna  and
      Ignat, Oana  and
      Jin, Zhijing  and
      Mihalcea, Rada  and
      Piatti, Giorgio  and
      Tetreault, Joel  and
      Wilson, Steven  and
      Zhao, Jieyu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.nlp4pi-1.27/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.nlp4pi-1.27",
    pages = "315--326",
    abstract = "Climate change (CC) has attracted increasing attention in NLP in recent years. However, detecting the stance on CC in multimodal data is understudied and remains challenging due to a lack of reliable datasets. To improve the understanding of public opinions and communication strategies, this paper presents MultiClimate, the first open-source manually-annotated stance detection dataset with 100 CC-related YouTube videos and 4,209 frame-transcript pairs. We deploy state-of-the-art vision and language models, as well as multimodal models for MultiClimate stance detection. Results show that text-only BERT significantly outperforms image-only ResNet50 and ViT. Combining both modalities achieves state-of-the-art, 0.747/0.749 in accuracy/F1. Our 100M-sized fusion models also beat CLIP and BLIP, as well as the much larger 9B-sized multimodal IDEFICS and text-only Llama3 and Gemma2, indicating that multimodal stance detection remains challenging for large language models. Our code, dataset, as well as supplementary materials, are available at https://github.com/werywjw/MultiClimate."
}