StanceEval 2024: The First Arabic Stance Detection Shared Task

Nora Alturayeif, Hamzah Luqman, Zaid Alyafeai, Asma Yamani


Abstract
Recently, there has been a growing interest in analyzing user-generated text to understand opinions expressed on social media. In NLP, this task is known as stance detection, where the goal is to predict whether the writer is in favor, against, or has no opinion on a given topic. Stance detection is crucial for applications such as sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and social media monitoring, as it helps in capturing the nuanced perspectives of users on various subjects. As part of the ArabicNLP 2024 program, we organized the first shared task on Arabic Stance Detection, StanceEval 2024. This initiative aimed to foster advancements in stance detection for the Arabic language, a relatively underrepresented area in Arabic NLP research. This overview paper provides a detailed description of the shared task, covering the dataset, the methodologies used by various teams, and a summary of the results from all participants. We received 28 unique team registrations, and during the testing phase, 16 teams submitted valid entries. The highest classification F-score obtained was 84.38.
Anthology ID:
2024.arabicnlp-1.88
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
August
Year:
2024
Address:
Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
774–782
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.88
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.88
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Cite (ACL):
Nora Alturayeif, Hamzah Luqman, Zaid Alyafeai, and Asma Yamani. 2024. StanceEval 2024: The First Arabic Stance Detection Shared Task. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 774–782, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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StanceEval 2024: The First Arabic Stance Detection Shared Task (Alturayeif et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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