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Stance detection is the task of classifying the attitude expressed in a text towards a target such as Hillary Clinton to be "positive", negative" or "neutral". Previous work has assumed that either the target is mentioned in the text or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Isabelle Augenstein , Tim Rocktäschel , Andreas Vlachos , Kalina Bontcheva

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 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

The rise of social media platforms has led to an increase in polarised online discussions, especially on political and socio-cultural topics such as elections and climate change. We propose a simple and novel unsupervised method to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Isabelle Lorge , Li Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Online forums and social media platforms are increasingly being used to discuss topics of varying polarities where different people take different stances. Several methodologies for automatic stance detection from text have been proposed in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Shalmoli Ghosh , Prajwal Singhania , Siddharth Singh , Koustav Rudra , Saptarshi Ghosh

Social media has become one of the main channels for peo- ple to communicate and share their views with the society. We can often detect from these views whether the person is in favor, against or neu- tral towards a given topic. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sahil Swami , Ankush Khandelwal , Vinay Singh , Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar , Manish Shrivastava

This paper studies the problem of stance detection which aims to predict the perspective (or stance) of a given document with respect to a given claim. Stance detection is a major component of automated fact checking. As annotating stances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Brian Xu , Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass

Stance detection on social media can help to identify and understand slanted news or commentary in everyday life. In this work, we propose a new model for zero-shot stance detection on Twitter that uses adversarial learning to generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Emily Allaway , Malavika Srikanth , Kathleen McKeown

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

Stance detection concerns automatically determining the viewpoint (i.e., in favour of, against, or neutral) of a text's author towards a target. Stance detection has been applied to many research topics, among which the detection of stances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Qixiang Fang , Anastasia Giachanou , Ayoub Bagheri

Stance detection, which aims to determine whether an individual is for or against a target concept, promises to uncover public opinion from large streams of social media data. Yet even human annotation of social media content does not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Kenneth Joseph , Sarah Shugars , Ryan Gallagher , Jon Green , Alexi Quintana Mathé , Zijian An , David Lazer

Stance detection infers a text author's attitude towards a target. This is challenging when the model lacks background knowledge about the target. Here, we show how background knowledge from Wikipedia can help enhance the performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Zihao He , Negar Mokhberian , Kristina Lerman

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

The goal of stance detection is to determine the viewpoint expressed in a piece of text towards a target. These viewpoints or contexts are often expressed in many different languages depending on the user and the platform, which can be a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

Stance detection refers to the task of extracting the standpoint (Favor, Against or Neither) towards a target in given texts. Such research gains increasing attention with the proliferation of social media contents. The conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Bowen Zhang , Daijun Ding , Liwen Jing , Genan Dai , Nan Yin

Analysing how people react to rumours associated with news in social media is an important task to prevent the spreading of misinformation, which is nowadays widely recognized as a dangerous tendency. In social media conversations, users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Endang Wahyu Pamungkas , Valerio Basile , Viviana Patti

Stance detection is a challenging task that aims to identify public opinion from social media platforms with respect to specific targets. Previous work on stance detection largely focused on pure texts. In this paper, we study multi-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bin Liang , Ang Li , Jingqian Zhao , Lin Gui , Min Yang , Yue Yu , Kam-Fai Wong , Ruifeng Xu

The most of the people have their account on social networks (e.g. Facebook, Vkontakte) where they express their attitude to different situations and events. Facebook provides only the positive mark as a like button and share. However, it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hieu Tran , Maxim Shcherbakov

The large majority of the research performed on stance detection has been focused on developing more or less sophisticated text classification systems, even when many benchmarks are based on social network data such as Twitter. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Joseba Fernandez de Landa , Rodrigo Agerri

Stance detection aims to determine the attitude of a given text with respect to a specific topic or claim. While stance detection has been fairly well researched in the last years, most the work has been focused on English. This is mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Elena Zotova , Rodrigo Agerri , Manuel Nuñez , German Rigau