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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

This paper introduces rStar, a self-play mutual reasoning approach that significantly improves reasoning capabilities of small language models (SLMs) without fine-tuning or superior models. rStar decouples reasoning into a self-play mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhenting Qi , Mingyuan Ma , Jiahang Xu , Li Lyna Zhang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang

Stance detection predicts attitudes towards targets in texts and has gained attention with the rise of social media. Traditional approaches include conventional machine learning, early deep neural networks, and pre-trained fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Bowen Zhang , Xianghua Fu , Daijun Ding , Hu Huang , Genan Dai , Nan Yin , Yangyang Li , Liwen Jing

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for autonomous driving but often lack transparent reasoning capabilities that are critical for safety. We investigate whether explicitly modeling reasoning during fine-tuning enhances VLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Amirhosein Chahe , Lifeng Zhou

Stance Detection (SD) has become a critical area of interest due to its applications in various contexts leading to increased research within NLP. Yet the subtlety and complexity of texts sourced from online platforms often containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Gibson Nkhata Shi Yin Hong , Susan Gauch

Conversational prompt-engineering-based large language models (LLMs) have enabled targeted control over the output creation, enhancing versatility, adaptability and adhoc retrieval. From another perspective, digital misinformation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dahlia Shehata , Robin Cohen , Charles Clarke

Stance detection (SD) identifies the text position towards a target, typically labeled as favor, against, or none. We introduce Open-Target Stance Detection (OTSD), the most realistic task where targets are neither seen during training nor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Abu Ubaida Akash , Ahmed Fahmy , Amine Trabelsi

The detection of mental health problems from social media and the interpretation of these results have been extensively explored. Research has shown that incorporating clinical symptom information into a model enhances domain expertise,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hoyun Song , Huije Lee , Jisu Shin , Sukmin Cho , Changgeon Ko , Jong C. Park

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to automatically label and analyze educational dialogue at scale, yet current pipelines lack reliable ways to detect when models are wrong. We investigate whether reasoning generated by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bakhtawar Ahtisham , Kirk Vanacore , Zhuqian Zhou , Jinsook Lee , Rene F. Kizilcec

Large Language Models (LLMs) often falter in complex reasoning tasks due to their static, parametric knowledge, leading to hallucinations and poor performance in specialized domains like mathematics. This work explores a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Srijan Shakya , Anamaria-Roberta Hartl , Sepp Hochreiter , Korbinian Pöppel

Stance detection is an important task for many applications that analyse or support online political discussions. Common approaches include fine-tuning transformer based models. However, these models require a large amount of labelled data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Stefan Sylvius Wagner , Maike Behrendt , Marc Ziegele , Stefan Harmeling

In the stance detection task, a text is classified as either favorable, opposing, or neutral towards a target. Prior work suggests that the use of external information, e.g., excerpts from Wikipedia, improves stance detection performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Quang Minh Nguyen , Taegyoon Kim

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

Sensitive information detection is crucial in content moderation to maintain safe online communities. Assisting in this traditionally manual process could relieve human moderators from overwhelming and tedious tasks, allowing them to focus…

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

In today's visually dominated social media landscape, predicting the perceived credibility of visual content and understanding what drives human judgment are crucial for countering misinformation. However, these tasks are challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yilang Peng , Sijia Qian , Yingdan Lu , Cuihua Shen

What if large language models could not only infer human mindsets but also expose every blind spot in team dialogue such as discrepancies in the team members' joint understanding? We present a novel, two-step framework that leverages large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Katharine Kowalyshyn , Matthias Scheutz

Rumour stance classification, defined as classifying the stance of specific social media posts into one of supporting, denying, querying or commenting on an earlier post, is becoming of increasing interest to researchers. While most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Elena Kochkina , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Michal Lukasik , Kalina Bontcheva , Trevor Cohn , Isabelle Augenstein

Generative LLMs typically improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance through instruction tuning. They excel at generating entities by semantic pattern matching but lack an explicit, verifiable reasoning mechanism. This "cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hui Huang , Yanping Chen , Ruizhang Huang , Chuan Lin , Yongbin Qin