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Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under discussion, whether the speaker or author of a conversational turn has Pro (Favor) or Con (Against) stance on the issue. Detecting stance in tweets is a new task proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Amita Misra , Brian Ecker , Theodore Handleman , Nicolas Hahn , Marilyn Walker

Stance detection, the task of identifying the speaker's opinion towards a particular target, has attracted the attention of researchers. This paper describes a novel approach for detecting stance in Twitter. We define a set of features in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Mirko Lai , Delia Irazú Hernández Farías , Viviana Patti , Paolo Rosso

We can often detect from a person's utterances whether he/she is in favor of or against a given target entity -- their stance towards the target. However, a person may express the same stance towards a target by using negative or positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Saif M. Mohammad , Parinaz Sobhani , Svetlana Kiritchenko

Stance detection is a subproblem of sentiment analysis where the stance of the author of a piece of natural language text for a particular target (either explicitly stated in the text or not) is explored. The stance output is usually given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Dilek Küçük , Fazli Can

Stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown that performing stance detection on vocal Twitter users, who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Younes Samih , Kareem Darwish

Stance detection determines whether the author of a piece of text is in favor of, against, or neutral towards a specified target, and can be used to gain valuable insights into social media. The ubiquitous indirect referral of targets makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zhengyuan Liu , Yong Keong Yap , Hai Leong Chieu , Nancy F. Chen

The topical stance detection problem addresses detecting the stance of the text content with respect to a given topic: whether the sentiment of the given text content is in FAVOR of (positive), is AGAINST (negative), or is NONE (neutral)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Kuntal Dey , Ritvik Shrivastava , Saroj Kaushik

Stance detection is the task of determining the viewpoint expressed in a text towards a given target. A specific direction within the task focuses on cross-target stance detection, where a model trained on samples pertaining to certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Stance detection concerns the classification of a writer's viewpoint towards a target. There are different task variants, e.g., stance of a tweet vs. a full article, or stance with respect to a claim vs. an (implicit) topic. Moreover, task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

As humans, we can often detect from a persons utterances if he or she is in favor of or against a given target entity (topic, product, another person, etc). But from the perspective of a computer, we need means to automatically deduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Gourav G. Shenoy , Erika H. Dsouza , Sandra Kübler

Stance detection is a classification problem in natural language processing where for a text and target pair, a class result from the set {Favor, Against, Neither} is expected. It is similar to the sentiment analysis problem but instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Dilek Küçük

Stance detection is identifying expressed beliefs in a document. While researchers widely use sentiment analysis for this, recent research demonstrates that sentiment and stance are distinct. This paper advances text analysis methods by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Michael Burnham

Stance detection is an active task in natural language processing (NLP) that aims to identify the author's stance towards a particular target within a text. Given the remarkable language understanding capabilities and encyclopedic prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Junxia Ma , Changjiang Wang , Hanwen Xing , Dongming Zhao , Yazhou Zhang

Stance Detection (StD) aims to detect an author's stance towards a certain topic or claim and has become a key component in applications like fake news detection, claim validation, and argument search. However, while stance is easily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Benjamin Schiller , Johannes Daxenberger , Iryna Gurevych

Popular social media networks provide the perfect environment to study the opinions and attitudes expressed by users. While interactions in social media such as Twitter occur in many natural languages, research on stance detection (the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Elena Zotova , Rodrigo Agerri , German Rigau

Stance detection is commonly defined as the automatic process of determining the positions of text producers, towards a target. In this paper, we define a research problem closely related to stance detection, namely, stance quantification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Dilek Küçük

Large Language Models inherit stereotypes from their pretraining data, leading to biased behavior toward certain social groups in many Natural Language Processing tasks, such as hateful speech detection or sentiment analysis. Surprisingly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Anthony Dubreuil , Antoine Gourru , Christine Largeron , Amine Trabelsi

This paper describes our approach for the Detecting Stance in Tweets task (SemEval-2016 Task 6). We utilized recent advances in short text categorization using deep learning to create word-level and character-level models. The choice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Ivan Sysoev , Soroush Vosoughi , Deb Roy

We describe MITRE's submission to the SemEval-2016 Task 6, Detecting Stance in Tweets. This effort achieved the top score in Task A on supervised stance detection, producing an average F1 score of 67.8 when assessing whether a tweet author…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Guido Zarrella , Amy Marsh

Stance detection aims to identify whether the author of a text is in favor of, against, or neutral to a given target. The main challenge of this task comes two-fold: few-shot learning resulting from the varying targets and the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yan Jiang , Jinhua Gao , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng
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