Dynamic Stance: Modeling Discussions by Labeling the Interactions

Blanca Figueras, Irene Baucells, Tommaso Caselli


Abstract
Stance detection is an increasingly popular task that has been mainly modeled as a static task, by assigning the expressed attitude of a text toward a given topic. Such a framing presents limitations, with trained systems showing poor generalization capabilities and being strongly topic-dependent. In this work, we propose modeling stance as a dynamic task, by focusing on the interactions between a message and their replies. For this purpose, we present a new annotation scheme that enables the categorization of all kinds of textual interactions. As a result, we have created a new corpus, the Dynamic Stance Corpus (DySC), consisting of three datasets in two middle-resourced languages: Catalan and Dutch. Our data analysis further supports our modeling decisions, empirically showing differences between the annotation of stance in static and dynamic contexts. We fine-tuned a series of monolingual and multilingual models on DySC, showing portability across topics and languages.
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2023.findings-emnlp.432
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6503–6515
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.432
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.432
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Blanca Figueras, Irene Baucells, and Tommaso Caselli. 2023. Dynamic Stance: Modeling Discussions by Labeling the Interactions. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 6503–6515, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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