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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

We examine diverging preferences in human-labeled preference datasets. We develop a taxonomy of disagreement sources spanning ten categories across four high-level classes and find that the majority of disagreements are due to factors such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Michael JQ Zhang , Zhilin Wang , Jena D. Hwang , Yi Dong , Olivier Delalleau , Yejin Choi , Eunsol Choi , Xiang Ren , Valentina Pyatkin

Stance detection is an established task that classifies an author's attitude toward a specific target into categories such as Favor, Neutral, and Against. Beyond categorical stance labels, we leverage a long-established affective science…

The Learning With Disagreements (LeWiDi) 2025 shared task aims to model annotator disagreement through soft label distribution prediction and perspectivist evaluation, which focuses on modeling individual annotators. We adapt DisCo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mandira Sawkar , Samay U. Shetty , Deepak Pandita , Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Christopher M. Homan

Researchers have raised awareness about the harms of aggregating labels especially in subjective tasks that naturally contain disagreements among human annotators. In this work we show that models that are only provided aggregated labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Abhishek Anand , Negar Mokhberian , Prathyusha Naresh Kumar , Anweasha Saha , Zihao He , Ashwin Rao , Fred Morstatter , Kristina Lerman

There is growing recognition that many NLP tasks lack a single ground truth, as human judgments reflect diverse perspectives. To capture this variation, models have been developed to predict full annotation distributions rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Frances Yung , Daniil Ignatev , Merel Scholman , Vera Demberg , Massimo Poesio

Researchers have proposed the use of generative large language models (LLMs) to label data for research and applied settings. This literature emphasizes the improved performance of these models relative to other natural language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Megan A. Brown , Shubham Atreja , Libby Hemphill , Patrick Y. Wu

Predicting all applicable labels for a given image is known as multi-label classification. Compared to the standard multi-class case (where each image has only one label), it is considerably more challenging to annotate training data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Elijah Cole , Oisin Mac Aodha , Titouan Lorieul , Pietro Perona , Dan Morris , Nebojsa Jojic

We consider the problem of omni-supervised object detection, which can use unlabeled, fully labeled and weakly labeled annotations, such as image tags, counts, points, etc., for object detection. This is enabled by a unified architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Pei Wang , Zhaowei Cai , Hao Yang , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Nuno Vasconcelos , Bernt Schiele , Stefano Soatto

The rise of social media platforms has led to an increase in polarised online discussions, especially on political and socio-cultural topics such as elections and climate change. We propose a simple and novel unsupervised method to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Isabelle Lorge , Li Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Janet B. Pierrehumbert

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

The naive approach to annotation projection is not effective to project discourse annotations from one language to another because implicit discourse relations are often changed to explicit ones and vice-versa in the translation. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Majid Laali , Leila Kosseim

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

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

Annotating large collections of textual data can be time consuming and expensive. That is why the ability to train models with limited annotation budgets is of great importance. In this context, it has been shown that under tight annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 César González-Gutiérrez , Audi Primadhanty , Francesco Cazzaro , Ariadna Quattoni

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on NLP classification tasks. However, they typically rely on aggregated labels-often via majority voting-which can obscure the human disagreement inherent in subjective annotations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Benedetta Muscato , Yue Li , Gizem Gezici , Zhixue Zhao , Fosca Giannotti

We study adapting trained object detectors to unseen domains manifesting significant variations of object appearance, viewpoints and backgrounds. Most current methods align domains by either using image or instance-level feature alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Muhammad Akhtar Munir , Muhammad Haris Khan , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Mohsen Ali

Large-scale datasets are important for the development of deep learning models. Such datasets usually require a heavy workload of annotations, which are extremely time-consuming and expensive. To accelerate the annotation procedure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiaoqian Ruan , Gaoang Wang

Climate change has become one of the biggest challenges of our time. Social media platforms such as Twitter play an important role in raising public awareness and spreading knowledge about the dangers of the current climate crisis. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Apoorva Upadhyaya , Marco Fisichella , Wolfgang Nejdl

The predictive performance of supervised learning algorithms depends on the quality of labels. In a typical label collection process, multiple annotators provide subjective noisy estimates of the "truth" under the influence of their varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryutaro Tanno , Ardavan Saeedi , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Daniel C. Alexander , Nathan Silberman