N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification

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Current news datasets merely focus on text features on the news and rarely leverage the feature of images, excluding numerous essential features for news classification.

• In this paper, we propose a new dataset, N24News, which is generated from New York Times with 24 categories and contains both text and image information in each news.
• We use a multitask multimodal method and the experimental results show multimodal news classification performs better than text-only news classification.
• Depending on the length of the text, the classification accuracy can be increased by up to 8.11%.