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Large Language Models inherit stereotypes from their pretraining data, leading to biased behavior toward certain social groups in many Natural Language Processing tasks, such as hateful speech detection or sentiment analysis. Surprisingly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Anthony Dubreuil , Antoine Gourru , Christine Largeron , Amine Trabelsi

Stance Detection (StD) aims to detect an author's stance towards a certain topic or claim and has become a key component in applications like fake news detection, claim validation, and argument search. However, while stance is easily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Benjamin Schiller , Johannes Daxenberger , Iryna Gurevych

Zero-shot image recognition (ZSIR) aims to recognize and reason in unseen domains by learning generalized knowledge from limited data in the seen domain. The gist of ZSIR is constructing a well-aligned mapping between the input visual space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jingcai Guo , Zhijie Rao , Zhi Chen , Song Guo , Jingren Zhou , Dacheng Tao

Stance detection is an active task in natural language processing (NLP) that aims to identify the author's stance towards a particular target within a text. Given the remarkable language understanding capabilities and encyclopedic prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Junxia Ma , Changjiang Wang , Hanwen Xing , Dongming Zhao , Yazhou Zhang

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

Zero-shot intent detection (ZSID) aims to deal with the continuously emerging intents without annotated training data. However, existing ZSID systems suffer from two limitations: 1) They are not good at modeling the relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Qingyi Si , Yuanxin Liu , Peng Fu , Zheng Lin , Jiangnan Li , Weiping Wang

Stance detection is crucial for fostering a human-centric Web by analyzing user-generated content to identify biases and harmful narratives that undermine trust. With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiaqing Yuan , Ruijie Xi , Munindar P. Singh

To recognize objects of the unseen classes, most existing Zero-Shot Learning(ZSL) methods first learn a compatible projection function between the common semantic space and the visual space based on the data of source seen classes, then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ziyu Wan , Dongdong Chen , Yan Li , Xingguang Yan , Junge Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jing Liao

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 on social media can help to identify and understand slanted news or commentary in everyday life. In this work, we propose a new model for zero-shot stance detection on Twitter that uses adversarial learning to generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Emily Allaway , Malavika Srikanth , Kathleen McKeown

The generalisation of irony detection faces significant challenges, leading to substantial performance deviations when detection models are applied to diverse real-world scenarios. In this study, we find that irony-focused prompts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Peiling Yi , Yuhan Xia , Yunfei Long

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) endows the computer vision system with the inferential capability to recognize instances of a new category that has never seen before. Two fundamental challenges in it are visual-semantic embedding and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang

In the last years there has been a growing attention towards predicting the political orientation of active social media users, being this of great help to study political forecasts, opinion dynamics modeling and users polarization.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Margherita Gambini , Tiziano Fagni , Caterina Senette , Maurizio Tesconi

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables the recognition of novel classes by leveraging semantic knowledge transfer from known to unknown categories. This knowledge, typically encapsulated in attribute descriptions, aids in identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Haojian Huang , Xiaozhen Qiao , Zhuo Chen , Haodong Chen , Bingyu Li , Zhe Sun , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

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 (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

Identifying user intents from natural language utterances is a crucial step in conversational systems that has been extensively studied as a supervised classification problem. However, in practice, new intents emerge after deploying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 A. B. Siddique , Fuad Jamour , Luxun Xu , Vagelis Hristidis

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

Stance detection, which aims to identify public opinion towards specific targets using social media data, is an important yet challenging task. With the proliferation of diverse multimodal social media content including text, and images…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Fuqiang Niu , Zebang Cheng , Xianghua Fu , Xiaojiang Peng , Genan Dai , Yin Chen , Hu Huang , Bowen Zhang