STANCY: Stance Classification Based on Consistency Cues

Kashyap Popat, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum


Abstract
Controversial claims are abundant in online media and discussion forums. A better understanding of such claims requires analyzing them from different perspectives. Stance classification is a necessary step for inferring these perspectives in terms of supporting or opposing the claim. In this work, we present a neural network model for stance classification leveraging BERT representations and augmenting them with a novel consistency constraint. Experiments on the Perspectrum dataset, consisting of claims and users’ perspectives from various debate websites, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach over state-of-the-art baselines.
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D19-1675
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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6413–6418
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-1675
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-1675
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Kashyap Popat, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Andrew Yates, and Gerhard Weikum. 2019. STANCY: Stance Classification Based on Consistency Cues. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6413–6418, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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