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title = "{C}o{S}t-{BR}: A Language Resource for Conversational Stance Detection",
author = "da Fonseca, Felipe Penhorate Carvalho and
Paraboni, Ivandre and
Digiampietri, Luciano Ant{\^o}nio",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.645/",
doi = "10.63317/3g3kx7kbdrkp",
pages = "8141--8146",
abstract = "Stance detection is the computational task of determining the attitude (e.g., for, against, neutral) expressed in text toward a specific target topic. In its more conventional form, the task focuses on isolated, context-free input utterances. Conversational stance detection, by contrast, analyzes messages embedded within dialogue threads, enabling the interpretation of responses in relation to preceding discourse, and takes into account a greater variety of stance relations (e.g., support, deny, query, comment, etc.). Despite growing research attention, however, conversational stance detection remains relatively under-resourced and largely limited to the English language. To address these gaps, this study introduces CoSt-BR, a new corpus for conversational stance detection composed of a large set of annotated Reddit discussions in Brazilian Portuguese. In addition, the paper also reports benchmark results obtained using various computational methods, including supervised and prompt-based strategies, applied to the corpus data, providing baseline references for future research in this area."
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%A da Fonseca, Felipe Penhorate Carvalho
%A Paraboni, Ivandre
%A Digiampietri, Luciano Antônio
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
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%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
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Markdown (Informal)
[CoSt-BR: A Language Resource for Conversational Stance Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.645/) (da Fonseca et al., LREC 2026)
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