Challenge: We propose a new task to extract events and their arguments from multimedia documents . traditional methods target text, images or videos, but multimedia content is distributed via multimedia .
Approach: They propose a method that encodes structured representations of semantic information from textual and visual data into a common embedding space.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 4.0% and 9.8% absolute gains on text event argument role labeling and visual event extraction.

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