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Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) seeks to determine the stance of text toward previously unseen targets, a task critical for analyzing dynamic and polarized online discourse with limited labeled data. While large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Bowen Zhang , Jun Ma , Fuqiang Niu , Li Dong , Jinzhou Cao , Genan Dai

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 aims to determine the attitude expressed in text towards a given target. Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) has emerged to classify stances towards unseen targets during inference. Recent data augmentation techniques for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Daijun Ding , Li Dong , Zhichao Huang , Guangning Xu , Xu Huang , Bo Liu , Liwen Jing , Bowen Zhang

Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) aims to detect stances toward unseen targets. Incorporating background knowledge to enhance transferability between seen and unseen targets constitutes the primary approach of ZSSD. However, these methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bowen Zhang , Daijun Ding , Liwen Jing , Hu Huang

Stance detection is an important component of understanding hidden influences in everyday life. Since there are thousands of potential topics to take a stance on, most with little to no training data, we focus on zero-shot stance detection:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Emily Allaway , Kathleen McKeown

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

Social media platforms are rich sources of opinionated content. Stance detection allows the automatic extraction of users' opinions on various topics from such content. We focus on zero-shot stance detection, where the model's success…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Maksym Taranukhin , Vered Shwartz , Evangelos Milios

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

Zero-shot stance detection is challenging because it requires detecting the stance of previously unseen targets in the inference phase. The ability to learn transferable target-invariant features is critical for zero-shot stance detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Xuechen Zhao , Jiaying Zou , Zhong Zhang , Feng Xie , Bin Zhou , Lei Tian

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

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, 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

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

LLM-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results in zero-shot stance detection. However, they still struggle in complex real-world scenarios, where stance understanding requires dynamic background knowledge, target definitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yuanshuo Zhang , Aohua Li , Bo Chen , Jingbo Sun , Xiaobing Zhao

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

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

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

Zero-shot object detection (ZSD), the task that extends conventional detection models to detecting objects from unseen categories, has emerged as a new challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches tackle the ZSD task with a strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Caixia Yan , Xiaojun Chang , Minnan Luo , Huan Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

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

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
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