Title
Incorporate opinion-towards for stance detection
Abstract
Stance detection can help gain different perspectives into important events, e.g., whether people are in favor of or against certain claim. Most previous work use sentiment information to assist in stance detection. However, they do not consider the critical opinion-towards information, i.e. whether the opinions are aimed at target or other objects. In this work, we incorporate opinion-towards information into a multi-task learning model to facilitate our proposed model for better understanding the sentiment information, which effectively improves the performance of stance detection. In particular, we have constructed a novel label relation matrix which constrains two auxiliary tasks in multi-task learning: (1) sentiment classification, and (2) opinion-towards classification. Our extensive experimental results on three publicly available benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. In addition, we show the importance of opinion-towards information for stance detection through ablation study and visualization analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108657
Knowledge-Based Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Stance detection,Multi-task learning,Opinion-towards label
Journal
246
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0950-7051
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yujie Fu110.69
Minh Nhut Nguyen21837112.04
Yang Li3659125.00
Suge Wang419620.38
Deyu Li578652.59
Jian Liao600.68
Jianxing Zheng700.34