Chain of Stance: Stance Detection with Large Language Models

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Autores principales: Ma, Junxia, Wang, Changjiang, Xing, Hanwen, Zhao, Dongming, Zhang, Yazhou
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Publicado: 2024
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author Ma, Junxia
Wang, Changjiang
Xing, Hanwen
Zhao, Dongming
Zhang, Yazhou
author_facet Ma, Junxia
Wang, Changjiang
Xing, Hanwen
Zhao, Dongming
Zhang, Yazhou
contents Stance detection is an active task in natural language processing (NLP) that aims to identify the author's stance towards a particular target within a text. Given the remarkable language understanding capabilities and encyclopedic prior knowledge of large language models (LLMs), how to explore the potential of LLMs in stance detection has received significant attention. Unlike existing LLM-based approaches that focus solely on fine-tuning with large-scale datasets, we propose a new prompting method, called \textit{Chain of Stance} (CoS). In particular, it positions LLMs as expert stance detectors by decomposing the stance detection process into a series of intermediate, stance-related assertions that culminate in the final judgment. This approach leads to significant improvements in classification performance. We conducted extensive experiments using four SOTA LLMs on the SemEval 2016 dataset, covering the zero-shot and few-shot learning setups. The results indicate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results with an F1 score of 79.84 in the few-shot setting.
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spellingShingle Chain of Stance: Stance Detection with Large Language Models
Ma, Junxia
Wang, Changjiang
Xing, Hanwen
Zhao, Dongming
Zhang, Yazhou
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Stance detection is an active task in natural language processing (NLP) that aims to identify the author's stance towards a particular target within a text. Given the remarkable language understanding capabilities and encyclopedic prior knowledge of large language models (LLMs), how to explore the potential of LLMs in stance detection has received significant attention. Unlike existing LLM-based approaches that focus solely on fine-tuning with large-scale datasets, we propose a new prompting method, called \textit{Chain of Stance} (CoS). In particular, it positions LLMs as expert stance detectors by decomposing the stance detection process into a series of intermediate, stance-related assertions that culminate in the final judgment. This approach leads to significant improvements in classification performance. We conducted extensive experiments using four SOTA LLMs on the SemEval 2016 dataset, covering the zero-shot and few-shot learning setups. The results indicate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results with an F1 score of 79.84 in the few-shot setting.
title Chain of Stance: Stance Detection with Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04649