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Misinformation has become a major concern in recent last years given its spread across our information sources. In the past years, many NLP tasks have been introduced in this area, with some systems reaching good results on English language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Gcinizwe Dlamini , Imad Eddine Ibrahim Bekkouch , Adil Khan , Leon Derczynski

The proliferation of misinformation, such as rumors on social media, has drawn significant attention, prompting various expressions of stance among users. Although rumor detection and stance detection are distinct tasks, they can complement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Ruichao Yang , Jing Ma , Wei Gao , Hongzhan Lin

Stance detection is an important component of understanding hidden influences in everyday life. Since there are thousands of potential topics to take a stance on, most with little to no training data, we focus on zero-shot stance detection:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Emily Allaway , Kathleen McKeown

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

In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and fake news can cause detrimental societal effects. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

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

Although pervasive spread of misinformation on social media platforms has become a pressing challenge, existing platform interventions have shown limited success in curbing its dissemination. In this study, we propose a stance-aware graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zihan Chen , Jingyi Sun , Rong Liu , Feng Mai

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

Cross-topic stance detection is the task to automatically detect stances (pro, against, or neutral) on unseen topics. We successfully reproduce state-of-the-art cross-topic stance detection work (Reimers et. al., 2019), and systematically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Myrthe Reuver , Suzan Verberne , Roser Morante , Antske Fokkens

Social media platforms are rich sources of opinionated content. Stance detection allows the automatic extraction of users' opinions on various topics from such content. We focus on zero-shot stance detection, where the model's success…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Maksym Taranukhin , Vered Shwartz , Evangelos Milios

Stance classification can be a powerful tool for understanding whether and which users believe in online rumours. The task aims to automatically predict the stance of replies towards a given rumour, namely support, deny, question, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Carolina Scarton , Diego F. Silva , Kalina Bontcheva

The proliferation of false information in the digital age has become a pressing concern, necessitating the development of effective and robust detection methods. This paper offers a comprehensive review of existing false information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kun Xie , Sibo Wang

The move of propaganda and disinformation to the online environment is possible thanks to the fact that within the last decade, digital information channels radically increased in popularity as a news source. The main advantage of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Aleš Horák , Vít Baisa , Ondřej Herman

Stance detection is a crucial NLP task with numerous applications in social science, from analyzing online discussions to assessing political campaigns. This paper investigates the optimal way to incorporate metadata into a political stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Stanley Cao , Felix Drinkall

During the COVID-19 pandemic, large amounts of COVID-19 misinformation are spreading on social media. We are interested in the stance of Twitter users towards COVID-19 misinformation. However, due to the relative recent nature of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yanfang Hou , Peter van der Putten , Suzan Verberne

Stance detection has emerged as a popular task in natural language processing research, enabled largely by the abundance of target-specific social media data. While there has been considerable research on the development of stance detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Prasanta Bhattacharya , Hong Zhang , Yiming Cao , Wei Gao , Brandon Siyuan Loh , Joseph J. P. Simons , Liang Ze Wong

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-established task of information extraction which has been studied for decades. More recently, studies reporting NER experiments on social media texts have emerged. On the other hand, stance detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Dilek Küçük

The abundance of social media data has presented opportunities for accurately determining public and group-specific stances around policy proposals or controversial topics. In contrast with sentiment analysis which focuses on identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Nayoung Kim , David Mosallanezhad , Lu Cheng , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

We study cross-lingual stance detection, which aims to leverage labeled data in one language to identify the relative perspective (or stance) of a given document with respect to a claim in a different target language. In particular, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass , Preslav Nakov

Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. While initially this was mostly about textual content, over time images and videos gained…