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We present a novel end-to-end memory network for stance detection, which jointly (i) predicts whether a document agrees, disagrees, discusses or is unrelated with respect to a given target claim, and also (ii) extracts snippets of evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Mitra Mohtarami , Ramy Baly , James Glass , Preslav Nakov , Lluis Marquez , Alessandro Moschitti

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

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

The explosive growth and popularity of Social Media has revolutionised the way we communicate and collaborate. Unfortunately, this same ease of accessing and sharing information has led to an explosion of misinformation and propaganda.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Anushka Prakash , Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown that performing stance detection on vocal Twitter users, who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Younes Samih , Kareem Darwish

Online forums and social media platforms are increasingly being used to discuss topics of varying polarities where different people take different stances. Several methodologies for automatic stance detection from text have been proposed in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Shalmoli Ghosh , Prajwal Singhania , Siddharth Singh , Koustav Rudra , Saptarshi Ghosh

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

Actor-level stance detection aims to determine an author expressed position toward specific geopolitical actors mentioned or implicated in a text. Although transformer-based models have achieved relatively good performance in stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Abdullah Al Shafi , Md. Milon Islam , Sk. Imran Hossain , K. M. Azharul Hasan

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

Stance detection is the task of determining the viewpoint expressed in a text towards a given target. A specific direction within the task focuses on cross-target stance detection, where a model trained on samples pertaining to certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Stance detection, as the task of determining the viewpoint of a social media post towards a target as 'favor' or 'against', has been understudied in the challenging yet realistic scenario where there is limited labeled data for a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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

The exponential rise of social media and digital news in the past decade has had the unfortunate consequence of escalating what the United Nations has called a global topic of concern: the growing prevalence of disinformation. Given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chris Dulhanty , Jason L. Deglint , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Alexander Wong

A key challenge in social network analysis is understanding the position, or stance, of people in the graph on a large set of topics. While past work has modeled (dis)agreement in social networks using signed graphs, these approaches have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-16 John Pougué-Biyong , Akshay Gupta , Aria Haghighi , Ahmed El-Kishky

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 typically framed as predicting the sentiment in a given text towards a target entity. However, this setup overlooks the importance of the source entity, i.e., who is expressing the opinion. In this paper, we emphasize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Nick Beauchamp , Lu Wang

Understanding attitudes expressed in texts, also known as stance detection, plays an important role in systems for detecting false information online, be it misinformation (unintentionally false) or disinformation (intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

Stance detection is crucial for fostering a human-centric Web by analyzing user-generated content to identify biases and harmful narratives that undermine trust. With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiaqing Yuan , Ruijie Xi , Munindar P. Singh

Today's densely instrumented world offers tremendous opportunities for continuous acquisition and analysis of multimodal sensor data providing temporal characterization of an individual's behaviors. Is it possible to efficiently couple such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Homa Hosseinmardi , Amir Ghasemian , Shrikanth Narayanan , Kristina Lerman , Emilio Ferrara

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