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Despite the increasing popularity of the stance detection task, existing approaches are predominantly limited to using the textual content of social media posts for the classification, overlooking the social nature of the task. The stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-lingual sentiment classification in short texts. This is a challenging task as the amount of training data in languages other than English is very limited. Previously proposed multi-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jan Deriu , Aurelien Lucchi , Valeria De Luca , Aliaksei Severyn , Simon Müller , Mark Cieliebak , Thomas Hofmann , Martin Jaggi

Stance detection, which aims to identify public opinion towards specific targets using social media data, is an important yet challenging task. With the increasing number of online debates among social media users, conversational stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuzhe Ding , Kang He , Bobo Li , Li Zheng , Haijun He , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

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

Zero-shot stance detection is challenging because it requires detecting the stance of previously unseen targets in the inference phase. The ability to learn transferable target-invariant features is critical for zero-shot stance detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Xuechen Zhao , Jiaying Zou , Zhong Zhang , Feng Xie , Bin Zhou , Lei Tian

Due to the broad range of social media platforms, the requirements of abusive language detection systems are varied and ever-changing. Already a large set of annotated corpora with different properties and label sets were created, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Viktor Hangya , Alexander Fraser

Stance detection is identifying expressed beliefs in a document. While researchers widely use sentiment analysis for this, recent research demonstrates that sentiment and stance are distinct. This paper advances text analysis methods by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Michael Burnham

Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under discussion, whether the speaker or author of a conversational turn has Pro (Favor) or Con (Against) stance on the issue. Detecting stance in tweets is a new task proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Amita Misra , Brian Ecker , Theodore Handleman , Nicolas Hahn , Marilyn Walker

Data collection from manual labeling provides domain-specific and task-aligned supervision for data-driven approaches, and a critical mass of well-annotated resources is required to achieve reasonable performance in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhengyuan Liu , Hai Leong Chieu , Nancy F. Chen

Improving multilingual language models capabilities in low-resource languages is generally difficult due to the scarcity of large-scale data in those languages. In this paper, we relax the reliance on texts in low-resource languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Fajri Koto , Tilman Beck , Zeerak Talat , Iryna Gurevych , Timothy Baldwin

In this paper, we explore the use of pre-trained language models to learn sentiment information of written texts for speech sentiment analysis. First, we investigate how useful a pre-trained language model would be in a 2-step pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Suwon Shon , Pablo Brusco , Jing Pan , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

Stance detection models may tend to rely on dataset bias in the text part as a shortcut and thus fail to sufficiently learn the interaction between the targets and texts. Recent debiasing methods usually treated features learned by small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jianhua Yuan , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

Detecting social bias in text is challenging due to nuance, subjectivity, and difficulty in obtaining good quality labeled datasets at scale, especially given the evolving nature of social biases and society. To address these challenges, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Rafal Kocielnik , Mohammad Shoeybi , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

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

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

In this paper, we study the few-shot multi-label classification for user intent detection. For multi-label intent detection, state-of-the-art work estimates label-instance relevance scores and uses a threshold to select multiple associated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yutai Hou , Yongkui Lai , Yushan Wu , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Stance detection, the classification of attitudes expressed in a text towards a specific topic, is vital for applications like fake news detection and opinion mining. However, the scarcity of labeled data remains a challenge for this task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ghazaleh Mahmoudi , Babak Behkamkia , Sauleh Eetemadi

Sentiment analysis benefits from large, hand-annotated resources in order to train and test machine learning models, which are often data hungry. While some languages, e.g., English, have a vast array of these resources, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Jeremy Barnes , Roman Klinger