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Intent Detection is one of the core tasks of dialog systems. Few-shot Intent Detection is challenging due to limited number of annotated utterances for novel classes. Generalized Few-shot intent detection is more realistic but challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ayush Kumar , Vijit Malik , Jithendra Vepa

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

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

Stance detection deals with identifying an author's stance towards a target. Most existing stance detection models are limited because they do not consider relevant contextual information which allows for inferring the stance correctly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Tilman Beck , Andreas Waldis , Iryna Gurevych

Stance detection is an established task that classifies an author's attitude toward a specific target into categories such as Favor, Neutral, and Against. Beyond categorical stance labels, we leverage a long-established affective science…

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has received substantial attention in English, yet challenges remain for low-resource languages due to the scarcity of labelled data. Current cross-lingual ABSA approaches often rely on external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jakub Šmíd , Pavel Přibáň , Pavel Král

Stance detection is essential for understanding subjective content across various platforms such as social media, news articles, and online reviews. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized stance detection by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lata Pangtey , Anukriti Bhatnagar , Shubhi Bansal , Shahid Shafi Dar , 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

Stance classification, the task of predicting the viewpoint of an author on a subject of interest, has long been a focal point of research in domains ranging from social science to machine learning. Current stance detection methods rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Iain J. Cruickshank , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng

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

We present the novel approach for stance detection across domains and targets, Metric Learning-Based Few-Shot Learning for Cross-Target and Cross-Domain Stance Detection (MLSD). MLSD utilizes metric learning with triplet loss to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Parush Gera , Tempestt Neal

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

In this work, we focus on a more challenging few-shot intent detection scenario where many intents are fine-grained and semantically similar. We present a simple yet effective few-shot intent detection schema via contrastive pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jianguo Zhang , Trung Bui , Seunghyun Yoon , Xiang Chen , Zhiwei Liu , Congying Xia , Quan Hung Tran , Walter Chang , Philip Yu

Social media enables data-driven analysis of public opinion on contested issues. Target-Stance Extraction (TSE) is the task of identifying the target discussed in a document and the document's stance towards that target. Many works classify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ethan Mines , Bonnie Dorr

Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection (MID) is crucial for dialogue systems, aiming to detect multiple intents of utterances in low-resource dialogue domains. Previous studies focus on a two-stage pipeline. They first learn representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shiman Zhao , Shangyuan Li , Wei Chen , Tengjiao Wang , Jiahui Yao , Jiabin Zheng , Kam Fai Wong

Social media's global reach amplifies the spread of information, highlighting the need for robust Natural Language Processing tasks like stance detection across languages and modalities. Prior research predominantly focuses on text-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jake Vasilakes , Carolina Scarton , Zhixue Zhao

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

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

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

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