Muhammed Cihat Unal


2025

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PoliStance-TR: A Dataset for Turkish Stance Detection in Political Domain
Muhammed Cihat Unal | Yasemin Sarkın | Alper Karamanlioglu | Berkan Demirel
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era

Stance detection in NLP involves determining whether an author is supportive, against, or neutral towards a particular target. This task is particularly challenging for Turkish due to the limited availability of data, which hinders progress in the field. To address this issue, we introduce a novel dataset focused on stance detection in Turkish, specifically within the political domain. This dataset was collected from X (formerly Twitter) and annotated by three human annotators who followed predefined guidelines to ensure consistent labeling and generalizability. After compiling the dataset, we trained various transformer-based models with different architectures, showing that the dataset is effective for stance classification. These models achieved an impressive Macro F1 score of up to 82%, highlighting their effectiveness in stance detection.