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In this paper, we consider the problem of latent sentiment detection in Online Social Networks such as Twitter. We demonstrate the benefits of using the underlying social network as an Ising prior to perform network aided sentiment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Rohit Negi , Vinay Uday Prabhu , Miguel Rodrigues

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

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

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

This paper describes our system created to detect stance in online discussions. The goal is to identify whether the author of a comment is in favor of the given target or against. Our approach is based on a maximum entropy classifier, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Peter Krejzl , Barbora Hourová , Josef Steinberger

In this paper , we tackle Sentiment Analysis conditioned on a Topic in Twitter data using Deep Learning . We propose a 2-tier approach : In the first phase we create our own Word Embeddings and see that they do perform better than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Sharath T. S. , Shubhangi Tandon

This paper introduces a study on tweet sentiment classification. Our task is to classify a tweet as either positive or negative. We approach the problem in two steps, namely embedding and classifying. Our baseline methods include several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Tommaso Macrì , Freya Murphy , Yunfan Zou , Yves Zumbach

The rapid evolution of social media has generated an overwhelming volume of user-generated content, conveying implicit opinions and contributing to the spread of misinformation. The method aims to enhance the detection of stance where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lata Pangtey , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Prasad Chaudhari , Shubhi Bansal , Nagendra Kumar

This paper presents two self-contained tutorials on stance detection in Twitter data using BERT fine-tuning and prompting large language models (LLMs). The first tutorial explains BERT architecture and tokenization, guiding users through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yun-Shiuan Chuang

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 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

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

One of the most significant issues as attended a lot in recent years is that of recognizing the sentiments and emotions in social media texts. The analysis of sentiments and emotions is intended to recognize the conceptual information such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Bahareh Golchin , Noushin Riahi

With the rapid proliferation of information across digital platforms, stance detection has emerged as a pivotal challenge in social media analysis. While most of the existing approaches focus solely on textual data, real-world social media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Lata Pangtey , Omkar Kabde , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

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

Most neural network models for document classification on social media focus on text infor-mation to the neglect of other information on these platforms. In this paper, we classify post stance on social media channels and develop UTCNN, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Wei-Fan Chen , Lun-Wei Ku

Rumour stance classification, defined as classifying the stance of specific social media posts into one of supporting, denying, querying or commenting on an earlier post, is becoming of increasing interest to researchers. While most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Elena Kochkina , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Michal Lukasik , Kalina Bontcheva , Trevor Cohn , Isabelle Augenstein

Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been a growing research interest for developing effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Abeer AlDayel , Walid Magdy

With the popularity of social networks, and e-commerce websites, sentiment analysis has become a more active area of research in the past few years. On a high level, sentiment analysis tries to understand the public opinion about a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-14 Shervin Minaee , Elham Azimi , AmirAli Abdolrashidi

Target-based Stance Detection is the task of finding a stance toward a target. Twitter is one of the primary sources of political discussions in social media and one of the best resources to analyze Stance toward entities. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Mohammad Mehdi Jaziriyan , Ahmad Akbari , Hamed Karbasi