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Exploiting Sentiment and Common Sense for Zero-shot Stance Detection

18 Aug 2022COLING 2022 10arXiv:2208.08797archive 2025-07-28

Yun Luo, Zihan Liu, Yuefeng Shi, Stan Z Li, Yue Zhang

The stance detection task aims to classify the stance toward given documents and topics. Since the topics can be implicit in documents and unseen in training data for zero-shot settings, we propose to boost the transferability of the stance detection model by using sentiment and commonsense knowledge, which are seldom considered in previous studies. Our model includes a graph autoencoder module to obtain commonsense knowledge and a stance detection module with sentiment and commonsense. Experimental results show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the zero-shot and few-shot benchmark dataset--VAST. Meanwhile, ablation studies prove the significance of each module in our model. Analysis of the relations between sentiment, common sense, and stance indicates the effectiveness of sentiment and common sense.

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