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Stance detection is a subproblem of sentiment analysis where the stance of the author of a piece of natural language text for a particular target (either explicitly stated in the text or not) is explored. The stance output is usually given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Dilek Küçük , Fazli Can

Stance detection concerns the classification of a writer's viewpoint towards a target. There are different task variants, e.g., stance of a tweet vs. a full article, or stance with respect to a claim vs. an (implicit) topic. Moreover, task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

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

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

As humans, we can often detect from a persons utterances if he or she is in favor of or against a given target entity (topic, product, another person, etc). But from the perspective of a computer, we need means to automatically deduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Gourav G. Shenoy , Erika H. Dsouza , Sandra Kübler

Stance detection is important for understanding different attitudes and beliefs on the Internet. However, given that a passage's stance toward a given topic is often highly dependent on that topic, building a stance detection model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Hans W. A. Hanley , Zakir Durumeric

This work introduces UstanceBR, a multimodal corpus in the Brazilian Portuguese Twitter domain for target-based stance prediction. The corpus comprises 86.8 k labelled stances towards selected target topics, and extensive network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Camila Pereira , Matheus Pavan , Sungwon Yoon , Ricelli Ramos , Pablo Costa , Lais Cavalheiro , Ivandre Paraboni

In the last years there has been a growing attention towards predicting the political orientation of active social media users, being this of great help to study political forecasts, opinion dynamics modeling and users polarization.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Margherita Gambini , Tiziano Fagni , Caterina Senette , Maurizio Tesconi

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

Stance detection, which aims to determine whether an individual is for or against a target concept, promises to uncover public opinion from large streams of social media data. Yet even human annotation of social media content does not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Kenneth Joseph , Sarah Shugars , Ryan Gallagher , Jon Green , Alexi Quintana Mathé , Zijian An , David Lazer

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

Stance detection is an active task in natural language processing (NLP) that aims to identify the author's stance towards a particular target within a text. Given the remarkable language understanding capabilities and encyclopedic prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Junxia Ma , Changjiang Wang , Hanwen Xing , Dongming Zhao , Yazhou Zhang

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

Identifying user stance related to a political event has several applications, like determination of individual stance, shaping of public opinion, identifying popularity of government measures and many others. The huge volume of political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Roshni Chakraborty , Maitry Bhavsar , Sourav Kumar Dandapat , Joydeep Chandra

A reasonable approach for fact checking a claim involves retrieving potentially relevant documents from different sources (e.g., news websites, social media, etc.), determining the stance of each document with respect to the claim, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ramy Baly , Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass , Lluis Marquez , Alessandro Moschitti , Preslav Nakov

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

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

We introduce FarExStance, a new dataset for explainable stance detection in Farsi. Each instance in this dataset contains a claim, the stance of an article or social media post towards that claim, and an extractive explanation which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Majid Zarharan , Maryam Hashemi , Malika Behroozrazegh , Sauleh Eetemadi , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar , Jennifer Foster

This work explores the application of textual entailment in news claim verification and stance prediction using a new corpus in Arabic. The publicly available corpus comes in two perspectives: a version consisting of 4,547 true and false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jude Khouja

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