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We study cross-lingual stance detection, which aims to leverage labeled data in one language to identify the relative perspective (or stance) of a given document with respect to a claim in a different target language. In particular, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass , Preslav Nakov

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

In the realm of contemporary social media, automatic stance detection is pivotal for opinion mining, as it synthesizes and examines user perspectives on contentious topics to uncover prevailing trends and sentiments. Traditional stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Fuqiang Niu , Genan Dai , Yisha Lu , Jiayu Liao , Xiang Li , Hu Huang , Bowen Zhang

This paper studies the problem of stance detection which aims to predict the perspective (or stance) of a given document with respect to a given claim. Stance detection is a major component of automated fact checking. As annotating stances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Brian Xu , Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass

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

Popular social media networks provide the perfect environment to study the opinions and attitudes expressed by users. While interactions in social media such as Twitter occur in many natural languages, research on stance detection (the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Elena Zotova , Rodrigo Agerri , German Rigau

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

Automated ways to extract stance (denying vs. supporting opinions) from conversations on social media are essential to advance opinion mining research. Recently, there is a renewed excitement in the field as we see new models attempting to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ramon Villa-Cox , Sumeet Kumar , Matthew Babcock , Kathleen M. Carley

Stance detection holds great potential to improve online political discussions through its deployment in discussion platforms for purposes such as content moderation, topic summarization or to facilitate more balanced discussions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Stefan Sylvius Wagner , Maike Behrendt , Marc Ziegele , Stefan Harmeling

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 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

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 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

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

Natural language inference (NLI) and semantic textual similarity (STS) are key tasks in natural language understanding (NLU). Although several benchmark datasets for those tasks have been released in English and a few other languages, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jiyeon Ham , Yo Joong Choe , Kyubyong Park , Ilji Choi , Hyungjoon Soh

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

Stance detection seeks to identify the viewpoints of individuals either in favor or against a given target or a controversial topic. Current advanced neural models for stance detection typically employ fully parametric softmax classifiers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yinghan Cheng , Qi Zhang , Chongyang Shi , Liang Xiao , Shufeng Hao , Liang Hu

Stance detection is critical for understanding the underlying position or attitude expressed toward a topic. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements across various natural language processing tasks including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ang Li , Jingqian Zhao , Bin Liang , Lin Gui , Hui Wang , Xi Zeng , Xingwei Liang , Kam-Fai Wong , Ruifeng Xu

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

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