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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

In modern digital environments, users frequently express opinions on contentious topics, providing a wealth of information on prevailing attitudes. The systematic analysis of these opinions offers valuable insights for decision-making in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Bowen Zhang , Genan Dai , Fuqiang Niu , Nan Yin , Xiaomao Fan , Senzhang Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Hu Huang

The goal of stance detection is to determine the viewpoint expressed in a piece of text towards a target. These viewpoints or contexts are often expressed in many different languages depending on the user and the platform, which can be a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

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

Most research on natural language processing treats bias as an absolute concept: Based on a (probably complex) algorithmic analysis, a sentence, an article, or a text is classified as biased or not. Given the fact that for humans the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Alonso Palomino , Martin Potthast , Khalid Al-Khatib , Benno Stein

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 is concerned with identifying the attitudes expressed by an author towards a target of interest. This task spans a variety of domains ranging from social media opinion identification to detecting the stance for a legal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Erik Arakelyan , Arnav Arora , Isabelle Augenstein

Object detection or localization is an incremental step in progression from coarse to fine digital image inference. It not only provides the classes of the image objects, but also provides the location of the image objects which have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat

Stance detection plays a pivotal role in enabling an extensive range of downstream applications, from discourse parsing to tracing the spread of fake news and the denial of scientific facts. While most stance classification models rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Guy Barel , Oren Tsur , Dan Vilenchik

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

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

Manual annotations are a prerequisite for many applications of machine learning. However, weaknesses in the annotation process itself are easy to overlook. In particular, scholars often choose what information to give to annotators without…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Kenneth Joseph , Lisa Friedland , William Hobbs , Oren Tsur , David Lazer

The task of Stance Detection involves discerning the stance expressed in a text towards a specific subject or target. Prior works have relied on existing transformer models that lack the capability to prioritize targets effectively.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Krishna Garg , Cornelia Caragea

We can often detect from a person's utterances whether he/she is in favor of or against a given target entity -- their stance towards the target. However, a person may express the same stance towards a target by using negative or positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Saif M. Mohammad , Parinaz Sobhani , Svetlana Kiritchenko

Stance detection is the view towards a specific target by a given context (\textit{e.g.} tweets, commercial reviews). Target-related knowledge is often needed to assist stance detection models in understanding the target well and making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ming Yan , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Ivor W. Tsang

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

Stance detection concerns automatically determining the viewpoint (i.e., in favour of, against, or neutral) of a text's author towards a target. Stance detection has been applied to many research topics, among which the detection of stances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Qixiang Fang , Anastasia Giachanou , Ayoub Bagheri

Popular social media networks provide the perfect environment to study the opinions and attitudes expressed by users. While interactions in social media such as Twitter occur in many natural languages, research on stance detection (the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Elena Zotova , Rodrigo Agerri , German Rigau

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

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