Stance Detection: A Practical Guide to Classifying Political Beliefs in Text

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Abstract: 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 precisely defining stance detection and presenting three distinct approaches: supervised classification, natural language inference, and in-context learning with generative language models. I discuss how document context and trade-offs between resources and workload should inform your methods. For all three approaches I provide …

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