Stance Reasoner: Zero-Shot Stance Detection on Social Media with Explicit Reasoning

arXiv:2403.14895v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Social media platforms are rich sources of opinionated content. Stance detection allows the automatic extraction of users' opinions on various topics from such content. We focus on zero-shot stance detection, where the model's success relies on (a) having knowledge about the target topic; and (b) learning general reasoning strategies that can be employed for new topics. We present Stance Reasoner, an approach to zero-shot stance detection on social media that leverages explicit reasoning over background …

abstract arxiv cs.ai cs.cl detection extraction focus knowledge media opinions platforms reasoning social social media social media platforms success topics type zero-shot