How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data
How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data
When studying political communication, combining the information from text, audio, and video signals promises to reflect the richness of human communication more comprehensively than confining it to individual modalities alone. However, when modeling such multimodal data, its heterogeneity, connectedness, and interaction are challenging to address. We argue that aligning the …