Despite the increasing popularity of the stance detection task, existing approaches are predominantly limited to using the textual content of social media posts for the classification, overlooking the social nature of the task. The stance detection task becomes particularly challenging in cross-target classification scenarios, where even in few-shot training settings the model needs to predict the stance towards new targets for which the model has only seen few relevant samples during training. To address the cross-target stance detection in social media by leveraging the social nature of the task, we introduce CT-TN, a novel model that aggregates multimodal embeddings derived from both textual and network features of the data. We conduct experiments in a few-shot cross-target scenario on six different combinations of source-destination target pairs. By comparing CT-TN with state-of-the-art cross-target stance detection models, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our model by achieving average performance improvements ranging from 11% to 21% across different baseline models. Experiments with different numbers of shots show that CT-TN can outperform other models after seeing 300 instances of the destination target. Further, ablation experiments demonstrate the positive contribution of each of the components of CT-TN towards the final performance. We further analyse the network interactions between social media users, which reveal the potential of using social features for cross-target stance detection.
StanceFlip: A Comprehensive Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Stance Flipping Forecasting
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University(深圳大学计算机科学与软件学院);Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));City University of Macau(澳门城市大学)
PRISM of Opinions: A Persona-Reasoned Multimodal Framework for User-centric Conversational Stance Detection
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China(鹏城实验室);Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies(广东省新型安全智能技术重点实验室);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China(香港理工大学);Macau University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China(澳门科学技术大学)
TikStance: A Multimodal and Hierarchical Dataset for Multi-target Stance Analysis in TikTok Political Conversations
School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen Technology University(深圳技术大学人工智能学院);School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学网络空间安全学院)
Queen Mary University of London(伦敦玛丽女王大学);Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University(伊玛目阿卜杜拉赫曼·本·费萨尔大学)
Social media platforms provide a goldmine for mining public opinion on issues of wide societal interest and impact. Opinion mining is a problem that can be operationalised by capturing and aggregating the stance of individual social media posts as supporting, opposing or being neutral towards the issue at hand. While most prior work in stance detection has investigated datasets that cover short periods of time, interest in investigating longitudinal datasets has recently increased. Evolving dynamics in linguistic and behavioural patterns observed in new data require adapting stance detection s…
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(麻省理工学院计算机科学与人工智能实验室);Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU(哈马德·本·哈利法大学卡塔尔计算研究所);Amazon(亚马逊)
A reasonable approach for fact checking a claim involves retrieving potentially relevant documents from different sources (e.g., news websites, social media, etc.), determining the stance of each document with respect to the claim, and finally making a prediction about the claim's factuality by aggregating the strength of the stances, while taking the reliability of the source into account. Moreover, a fact checking system should be able to explain its decision by providing relevant extracts (rationales) from the documents. Yet, this setup is not directly supported by existing datasets, which …
Large Language Models Meet Stance Detection: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Indore 453552, India(计算机科学与工程系,印度理工学院(IIT)印多尔,印多尔453552,印度)
CoSD: Collaborative Stance Detection with Contrastive Heterogeneous Topic Graph Learning
School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学计算机科学与技术学院);Department of Computer Science, Tongji University(同济大学计算机科学系);College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology(太原理工大学计算机科学与技术学院)