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Social media enables data-driven analysis of public opinion on contested issues. Target-Stance Extraction (TSE) is the task of identifying the target discussed in a document and the document's stance towards that target. Many works classify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ethan Mines , Bonnie Dorr

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

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 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

Stance detection is identifying expressed beliefs in a document. While researchers widely use sentiment analysis for this, recent research demonstrates that sentiment and stance are distinct. This paper advances text analysis methods by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Michael Burnham

Stance classification, the task of predicting the viewpoint of an author on a subject of interest, has long been a focal point of research in domains ranging from social science to machine learning. Current stance detection methods rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Iain J. Cruickshank , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng

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

Stance detection is a subproblem of sentiment analysis where the stance of the author of a piece of natural language text for a particular target (either explicitly stated in the text or not) is explored. The stance output is usually given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Dilek Küçük , Fazli Can

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

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

Recent work has made a preliminary attempt to use large language models (LLMs) to solve the stance detection task, showing promising results. However, considering that stance detection usually requires detailed background knowledge, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Xiaolong Wang , Yile Wang , Sijie Cheng , Peng Li , Yang Liu

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

The rapid proliferation of multimodal social media content has driven research in Multimodal Conversational Stance Detection (MCSD), which aims to interpret users' attitudes toward specific targets within complex discussions. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Bingbing Wang , Zhixin Bai , Zhengda Jin , Zihan Wang , Xintong Song , Jingjie Lin , Sixuan Li , Jing Li , Ruifeng Xu

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

The topical stance detection problem addresses detecting the stance of the text content with respect to a given topic: whether the sentiment of the given text content is in FAVOR of (positive), is AGAINST (negative), or is NONE (neutral)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Kuntal Dey , Ritvik Shrivastava , Saroj Kaushik

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

This paper describes LogSigma, our system for SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA). Unlike traditional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), which predicts discrete sentiment labels, DimABSA requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Baraa Hikal , Jonas Becker , Bela Gipp

We can often detect from a person's utterances whether he/she is in favor of or against a given target entity -- their stance towards the target. However, a person may express the same stance towards a target by using negative or positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Saif M. Mohammad , Parinaz Sobhani , Svetlana Kiritchenko

Valence-arousal (VA) estimation is crucial for capturing the nuanced nature of human emotions in naturalistic environments. While pre-trained Vision-Language models like CLIP have shown remarkable semantic alignment capabilities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Byeongjin Jung , Chanyeong Park , Sejoon Lim

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