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Stance detection has been widely studied as the task of determining if a social media post is positive, negative or neutral towards a specific issue, such as support towards vaccines. Research in stance detection has however often been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Bharathi A , Arkaitz Zubiaga

We investigate the novel task of online dispute detection and propose a sentiment analysis solution to the problem: we aim to identify the sequence of sentence-level sentiments expressed during a discussion and to use them as features in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Lu Wang , Claire Cardie

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

In the last years there has been a growing attention towards predicting the political orientation of active social media users, being this of great help to study political forecasts, opinion dynamics modeling and users polarization.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Margherita Gambini , Tiziano Fagni , Caterina Senette , Maurizio Tesconi

Automated ways to extract stance (denying vs. supporting opinions) from conversations on social media are essential to advance opinion mining research. Recently, there is a renewed excitement in the field as we see new models attempting to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ramon Villa-Cox , Sumeet Kumar , Matthew Babcock , Kathleen M. Carley

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

We present a highly effective unsupervised framework for detecting the stance of prolific Twitter users with respect to controversial topics. In particular, we use dimensionality reduction to project users onto a low-dimensional space,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Kareem Darwish , Peter Stefanov , Michaël Aupetit , Preslav Nakov

Stance detection is important for understanding different attitudes and beliefs on the Internet. However, given that a passage's stance toward a given topic is often highly dependent on that topic, building a stance detection model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Hans W. A. Hanley , Zakir Durumeric

We identify agreement and disagreement between utterances that express stances towards a topic of discussion. Existing methods focus mainly on conversational settings, where dialogic features are used for (dis)agreement inference. We extend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Chang Xu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Ross Sparks

Stance detection automatically detects the stance in a text towards a target, vital for content analysis in web and social media research. Despite their promising capabilities, LLMs encounter challenges when directly applied to stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Xiaochong Lan , Chen Gao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

We present a novel end-to-end memory network for stance detection, which jointly (i) predicts whether a document agrees, disagrees, discusses or is unrelated with respect to a given target claim, and also (ii) extracts snippets of evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Mitra Mohtarami , Ramy Baly , James Glass , Preslav Nakov , Lluis Marquez , Alessandro Moschitti

This paper surveys and presents recent academic work carried out within the field of stance classification and fake news detection. Echo chambers and the model organism problem are examples that pose challenges to acquire data with high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Anders Edelbo Lillie , Emil Refsgaard Middelboe

Controversial claims are abundant in online media and discussion forums. A better understanding of such claims requires analyzing them from different perspectives. Stance classification is a necessary step for inferring these perspectives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kashyap Popat , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

Given the incessant growth of documents describing the opinions of different people circulating on the web, including Web 2.0 has made it possible to give an opinion on any product in the net. In this paper, we examine the various opinions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Abdelmalek Amine , Reda Mohamed Hamou , Michel Simonet

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

Detecting and labeling stance in social media text is strongly motivated by hate speech detection, poll prediction, engagement forecasting, and concerted propaganda detection. Today's best neural stance detectors need large volumes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Subhabrata Dutta , Samiya Caur , Soumen Chakrabarti , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Target-specific stance detection on social media, which aims at classifying a textual data instance such as a post or a comment into a stance class of a target issue, has become an emerging opinion mining paradigm of importance. An example…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yupeng Li , Haorui He , Shaonan Wang , Francis C. M. Lau , Yunya Song

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 introduce a classification scheme for detecting political bias in long text content such as newspaper opinion articles. Obtaining long text data and annotations at sufficient scale for training is difficult, but it is relatively easy to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Aditya Saligrama

This tutorial aims to cover the state-of-the-art on stance detection and address open research avenues for interested researchers and practitioners. Stance detection is a recent research topic where the stance towards a given target or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dilek Küçük , Fazli Can