Zero-Shot Stance Detection: A Dataset and Model using Generalized Topic Representations

EMNLP 2020  ·  Emily Allaway, Kathleen McKeown ·

Stance detection is an important component of understanding hidden influences in everyday life. Since there are thousands of potential topics to take a stance on, most with little to no training data, we focus on zero-shot stance detection: classifying stance from no training examples. In this paper, we present a new dataset for zero-shot stance detection that captures a wider range of topics and lexical variation than in previous datasets. Additionally, we propose a new model for stance detection that implicitly captures relationships between topics using generalized topic representations and show that this model improves performance on a number of challenging linguistic phenomena.

PDF Abstract EMNLP 2020 PDF EMNLP 2020 Abstract

Datasets


Introduced in the Paper:

VAST

Results from the Paper


  Submit results from this paper to get state-of-the-art GitHub badges and help the community compare results to other papers.

Methods


No methods listed for this paper. Add relevant methods here