Dynamic Stance: Modeling Discussions by Labeling the Interactions
Blanca Calvo Figueras, Irene Baucells, Tommaso Caselli
Abstract
Stance detection is an increasingly popular task that has been mainly modeled as a static task, by assigning the expressed attitude of a text toward a given topic. Such a framing presents limitations, with trained systems showing poor generalization capabilities and being strongly topic-dependent. In this work, we propose modeling stance as a dynamic task, by focusing on the interactions between a message and their replies. For this purpose, we present a new annotation scheme that enables the categorization of all kinds of textual interactions. As a result, we have created a new corpus, the Dynamic Stance Corpus (DySC), consisting of three datasets in two middle-resourced languages: Catalan and Dutch. Our data analysis further supports our modeling decisions, empirically showing differences between the annotation of stance in static and dynamic contexts. We fine-tuned a series of monolingual and multilingual models on DySC, showing portability across topics and languages.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
figueras2023dynamic,
title={Dynamic Stance: Modeling Discussions by Labeling the Interactions},
author={Blanca Calvo Figueras and Irene Baucells and Tommaso Caselli},
booktitle={The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=cOxL1tlSQw}
}