Cross-Target Stance Detection with Sentiments-Aware Hierarchical Attention Network

The task of cross-target stance detection faces significant challenges due to the lack of additional background information in emerging knowledge domains and the colloquial nature of language patterns.Traditional stance detection methods often struggle with understanding limited context and have insufficient generalization across diverse sentiments and semantic structures.This paper focuses on effectively mining and utilizing sentimentsemantics knowledge for stance knowledge transfer and proposes a sentiment-aware hierarchical attention network(SentiHAN)for cross-target stance detection.SentiHAN introduces an improved hierarchical attention network designed to maximize the use of high-level representations of targets and texts at various fine-grain levels.This model integrates phrase-level combinatorial sentiment knowledge to effectively bridge the knowledge gap between known and unknown targets.By doing so,it enables a comprehensive understanding of stance representations for unknown targets across different sentiments and semantic structures.The model’s ability to leverage sentimentsemantics knowledge enhances its performance in detecting stances that may not be directly observable from the immediate context.Extensive experimental results indicate that SentiHAN significantly outperforms existing benchmark methods in terms of both accuracy and robustness.Moreover,the paper employs ablation studies and visualization techniques to explore the intricate relationship between sentiment and stance.These analyses further confirm the effectiveness of sentence-level combinatorial sentiment knowledge in improving stance detection capabilities.

A multi-target stance detection based on Bi-LSTM network with position-weight

In the task of multi-target stance detection,there are problems the mutual influence of content describing different targets,resulting in reduction in accuracy.To solve this problem,a multi-target stance detection algorithm based on a bidirectional long short-term memory(Bi-LSTM)network with position-weight is proposed.First,the corresponding position of the target in the input text is calculated with the ultimate position-weight vector.Next,the position information and output from the Bi-LSTM layer are fused by the position-weight fusion layer.Finally,the stances of different targets are predicted using the LSTM network and softmax classification.The multi-target stance detection corpus of the American election in 2016 is used to validate the proposed method.The results demonstrate that the Bi-LSTM network with position-weight achieves an advantage of 1.4%in macro average F1 value in the comparison of recent algorithms.

Collaborative Knowledge Infusion for Low-Resource Stance Detection

Stance detection is the view towards a specific target by a given context(e.g.tweets,commercial reviews).Target-related knowledge is often needed to assist stance detection models in understanding the target well and making detection correctly.However,prevailing works for knowledge-infused stance detection predominantly incorporate target knowledge from a singular source that lacks knowledge verification in limited domain knowledge.The low-resource training data further increase the challenge for the data-driven large models in this task.To address those challenges,we propose a collaborative knowledge infusion approach for low-resource stance detection tasks,employing a combination of aligned knowledge enhancement and efficient parameter learning techniques.Specifically,our stance detection approach leverages target background knowledge collaboratively from different knowledge sources with the help of knowledge alignment.Additionally,we also introduce the parameter-efficient collaborative adaptor with a staged optimization algorithm,which collaboratively addresses the challenges associated with low-resource stance detection tasks from both network structure and learning perspectives.To assess the effectiveness of our method,we conduct extensive experiments on three public stance detection datasets,including low-resource and cross-target settings.The results demonstrate significant performance improvements compared to the existing stance detection approaches.