CoSt-BR: A Language Resource for Conversational Stance Detection

Felipe Penhorate Carvalho da Fonseca, Ivandre Paraboni, Luciano Antônio Digiampietri


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.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.645
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
8141–8146
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-645
DOI:
10.63317/3g3kx7kbdrkp
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Cite (ACL):
Felipe Penhorate Carvalho da Fonseca, Ivandre Paraboni, and Luciano Antônio Digiampietri. 2026. CoSt-BR: A Language Resource for Conversational Stance Detection. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 8141–8146, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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CoSt-BR: A Language Resource for Conversational Stance Detection (da Fonseca et al., LREC 2026)
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