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Target-specific stance detection on social media, which aims at classifying a textual data instance such as a post or a comment into a stance class of a target issue, has become an emerging opinion mining paradigm of importance. An example…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yupeng Li , Haorui He , Shaonan Wang , Francis C. M. Lau , Yunya Song

Responding to the increasing need for automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems to assess language use beyond lexis and grammar (Burstein et al., 2016), we introduce a new approach to identify rhetorical features of stance in academic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Masaki Eguchi , Kristopher Kyle

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 become an essential tool for analyzing public discussions on social media. Current methods face significant challenges, particularly in Chinese language processing and multi-turn conversational analysis. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Fuqiang Niu , Yi Yang , Xianghua Fu , Genan Dai , Bowen Zhang

Stance detection is a critical component of rumour and fake news identification. It involves the extraction of the stance a particular author takes related to a given claim, both expressed in text. This paper investigates stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Nikita Lozhnikov , Leon Derczynski , Manuel Mazzara

The stance detection task aims to classify the stance toward given documents and topics. Since the topics can be implicit in documents and unseen in training data for zero-shot settings, we propose to boost the transferability of the stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yun Luo , Zihan Liu , Yuefeng Shi , Stan Z Li , Yue Zhang

Stance detection is a challenging task that aims to identify public opinion from social media platforms with respect to specific targets. Previous work on stance detection largely focused on pure texts. In this paper, we study multi-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bin Liang , Ang Li , Jingqian Zhao , Lin Gui , Min Yang , Yue Yu , Kam-Fai Wong , Ruifeng Xu

Fine-grained steering of language model outputs is essential for safety and reliability. Prompting and finetuning are widely used to achieve these goals, but interpretability researchers have proposed a variety of representation-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhengxuan Wu , Aryaman Arora , Atticus Geiger , Zheng Wang , Jing Huang , Dan Jurafsky , Christopher D. Manning , Christopher Potts

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

Zero-Shot Stance Detection (ZSSD) identifies the attitude of the post toward unseen targets. Existing research using contrastive, meta-learning, or data augmentation suffers from generalizability issues or lack of coherence between text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Apoorva Upadhyaya , Wolfgang Nejdl , Marco Fisichella

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

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

This research examines cross-lingual sentiment analysis using few-shot learning and incremental learning methods in Persian. The main objective is to develop a model capable of performing sentiment analysis in Persian using limited data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Farideh Majidi , Ziaeddin Beheshtifard

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 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

Controversial claims are abundant in online media and discussion forums. A better understanding of such claims requires analyzing them from different perspectives. Stance classification is a necessary step for inferring these perspectives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kashyap Popat , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

Stance detection is essential for understanding subjective content across various platforms such as social media, news articles, and online reviews. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized stance detection by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lata Pangtey , Anukriti Bhatnagar , Shubhi Bansal , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

Prior studies of zero-shot stance detection identify the attitude of texts towards unseen topics occurring in the same document corpus. Such task formulation has three limitations: (i) Single domain/dataset. A system is optimized on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hanzi Xu , Slobodan Vucetic , Wenpeng Yin

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

Automated stance detection and related machine learning methods can provide useful insights for media monitoring and academic research. Many of these approaches require annotated training datasets, which limits their applicability for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Mark Mets , Andres Karjus , Indrek Ibrus , Maximilian Schich