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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…

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Deep neural networks have achieved promising progress in remote sensing (RS) image classification, for which the training process requires abundant samples for each class. However, it is time-consuming and unrealistic to annotate labels for…

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Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under discussion, whether the speaker or author of a conversational turn has Pro (Favor) or Con (Against) stance on the issue. Detecting stance in tweets is a new task proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Amita Misra , Brian Ecker , Theodore Handleman , Nicolas Hahn , Marilyn Walker

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by exploiting semantic descriptions shared between seen classes and unseen classes. Current methods show that it is effective to learn visual-semantic alignment by projecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Zaiquan Yang , Yang Liu , Wenjia Xu , Chong Huang , Lei Zhou , Chao Tong

Stance detection concerns automatically determining the viewpoint (i.e., in favour of, against, or neutral) of a text's author towards a target. Stance detection has been applied to many research topics, among which the detection of stances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Qixiang Fang , Anastasia Giachanou , Ayoub Bagheri

We investigate Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to predict a user's stance on a target given a collection of his/her target-agnostic social media posts (i.e., user-level stance prediction). While we show early evidence that LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Siyuan Brandon Loh , Liang Ze Wong , Prasanta Bhattacharya , Joseph Simons , Wei Gao , Hong Zhang

We introduce and tackle the problem of zero-shot object detection (ZSD), which aims to detect object classes which are not observed during training. We work with a challenging set of object classes, not restricting ourselves to similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Ankan Bansal , Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Rama Chellappa , Ajay Divakaran

Detecting and identifying user intent from text, both written and spoken, plays an important role in modelling and understand dialogs. Existing research for intent discovery model it as a classification task with a predefined set of known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Nikhita Vedula , Nedim Lipka , Pranav Maneriker , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Despite the achievements of large-scale multimodal pre-training approaches, cross-modal retrieval, e.g., image-text retrieval, remains a challenging task. To bridge the semantic gap between the two modalities, previous studies mainly focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shuhuai Ren , Junyang Lin , Guangxiang Zhao , Rui Men , An Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xu Sun , Hongxia Yang

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

Zero-shot detection (ZSD) is a challenging task where we aim to recognize and localize objects simultaneously, even when our model has not been trained with visual samples of a few target ("unseen") classes. Recently, methods employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Sandipan Sarma , Sushil Kumar , Arijit Sur

User intent detection plays a critical role in question-answering and dialog systems. Most previous works treat intent detection as a classification problem where utterances are labeled with predefined intents. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Yi Chang , Philip S. Yu

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

Multi-modal stance detection (MSD) aims to determine an author's stance toward a given target using both textual and visual content. While recent methods leverage multi-modal fusion and prompt-based learning, most fail to distinguish…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhiyu Xie , Fuqiang Niu , Genan Dai , Qianlong Wang , Li Dong , Bowen Zhang , Hu Huang

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

User acceptance of artificial intelligence agents might depend on their ability to explain their reasoning, which requires adding an interpretability layer that fa- cilitates users to understand their behavior. This paper focuses on adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-16 I. Lopez-Gazpio , M. Maritxalar , A. Gonzalez-Agirre , G. Rigau , L. Uria , E. Agirre

Recent research works have proposed machine learning models for classifying IoT devices connected to a network. However, there is still a practical challenge of not having all devices (and hence their traffic) available during the training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Binghui Wu , Philipp Gysel , Dinil Mon Divakaran , Mohan Gurusamy

Stance detection refers to the task of extracting the standpoint (Favor, Against or Neither) towards a target in given texts. Such research gains increasing attention with the proliferation of social media contents. The conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Bowen Zhang , Daijun Ding , Liwen Jing , Genan Dai , Nan Yin

As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at automatically recognizing the instances from unseen object classes without training data. To address this problem, ZSL is usually carried out in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Xi Li , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei Zhang , Haibin Ling , Fei Wu