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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 (SD) on social media has emerged as a prominent area of interest with implications for social business and political applications thereby garnering escalating research attention within NLP. The inherent subtlety and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Gibson Nkhata , Susan Gauch

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 determines whether the author of a piece of text is in favor of, against, or neutral towards a specified target, and can be used to gain valuable insights into social media. The ubiquitous indirect referral of targets makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zhengyuan Liu , Yong Keong Yap , Hai Leong Chieu , Nancy F. Chen

We present our work on Track 4 in the Dialogue System Technology Challenges 8 (DSTC8). The DSTC8-Track 4 aims to perform dialogue state tracking (DST) under the zero-shot settings, in which the model needs to generalize on unseen service…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhen-Hua Ling , Jia-Chen Gu , Quan Liu

With the rapid proliferation of information across digital platforms, stance detection has emerged as a pivotal challenge in social media analysis. While most of the existing approaches focus solely on textual data, real-world social media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Lata Pangtey , Omkar Kabde , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

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

Misleading text detection on social media platforms is a critical research area, as these texts can lead to public misunderstanding, social panic and even economic losses. This paper proposes a novel framework - CL-ISR (Contrastive Learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tianyi Huang , Zikun Cui , Cuiqianhe Du , Chia-En Chiang

Recent research on dialogue state tracking (DST) focuses on methods that allow few- and zero-shot transfer to new domains or schemas. However, performance gains heavily depend on aggressive data augmentation and fine-tuning of ever larger…

The large majority of the research performed on stance detection has been focused on developing more or less sophisticated text classification systems, even when many benchmarks are based on social network data such as Twitter. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Joseba Fernandez de Landa , Rodrigo Agerri

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 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

Stance detection classifies stance relations (namely, Favor, Against, or Neither) between comments and targets. Pretrained language models (PLMs) are widely used to mine the stance relation to improve the performance of stance detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiarui Zhang , Shaojuan Wu , Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Detecting and labeling stance in social media text is strongly motivated by hate speech detection, poll prediction, engagement forecasting, and concerted propaganda detection. Today's best neural stance detectors need large volumes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Subhabrata Dutta , Samiya Caur , Soumen Chakrabarti , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Stance detection aims to identify whether the author of a text is in favor of, against, or neutral to a given target. The main challenge of this task comes two-fold: few-shot learning resulting from the varying targets and the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yan Jiang , Jinhua Gao , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Cross-target stance detection (CTSD) is an important task, which infers the attitude of the destination target by utilizing annotated data derived from the source target. One important approach in CTSD is to extract domain-invariant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Daijun Ding , Rong Chen , Liwen Jing , Bowen Zhang , Xu Huang , Li Dong , Xiaowen Zhao , Ge Song

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

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

Scene Change Detection is a challenging task in computer vision and robotics that aims to identify differences between two images of the same scene captured at different times. Traditional change detection methods rely on training models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

Stance detection is a classification problem in natural language processing where for a text and target pair, a class result from the set {Favor, Against, Neither} is expected. It is similar to the sentiment analysis problem but instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Dilek Küçük