Language Independent Stance Detection: Social Interaction-based Embeddings and Large Language Models

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Hauptverfasser: de Landa, Joseba Fernandez, Agerri, Rodrigo
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author de Landa, Joseba Fernandez
Agerri, Rodrigo
author_facet de Landa, Joseba Fernandez
Agerri, Rodrigo
contents The large majority of the research performed on stance detection has been focused on developing more or less sophisticated text classification systems, even when many benchmarks are based on social network data such as Twitter. This paper aims to take on the stance detection task by placing the emphasis not so much on the text itself but on the interaction data available on social networks. More specifically, we propose a new method to leverage social information such as friends and retweets by generating Relational Embeddings, namely, dense vector representations of interaction pairs. Our experiments on seven publicly available datasets and four different languages (Basque, Catalan, Italian, and Spanish) show that combining our relational embeddings with discriminative textual methods helps to substantially improve performance, obtaining state-of-the-art results for six out of seven evaluation settings, outperforming strong baselines based on Large Language Models, or other popular interaction-based approaches such as DeepWalk or node2vec.
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spellingShingle Language Independent Stance Detection: Social Interaction-based Embeddings and Large Language Models
de Landa, Joseba Fernandez
Agerri, Rodrigo
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The large majority of the research performed on stance detection has been focused on developing more or less sophisticated text classification systems, even when many benchmarks are based on social network data such as Twitter. This paper aims to take on the stance detection task by placing the emphasis not so much on the text itself but on the interaction data available on social networks. More specifically, we propose a new method to leverage social information such as friends and retweets by generating Relational Embeddings, namely, dense vector representations of interaction pairs. Our experiments on seven publicly available datasets and four different languages (Basque, Catalan, Italian, and Spanish) show that combining our relational embeddings with discriminative textual methods helps to substantially improve performance, obtaining state-of-the-art results for six out of seven evaluation settings, outperforming strong baselines based on Large Language Models, or other popular interaction-based approaches such as DeepWalk or node2vec.
title Language Independent Stance Detection: Social Interaction-based Embeddings and Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05715