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STANCY: Stance Classification Based on Consistency Cues

14 Oct 2019IJCNLP 2019 11arXiv:1910.06048archive 2025-07-28

Kashyap Popat, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum

Controversial claims are abundant in online media and discussion forums. A better understanding of such claims requires analyzing them from different perspectives. Stance classification is a necessary step for inferring these perspectives in terms of supporting or opposing the claim. In this work, we present a neural network model for stance classification leveraging BERT representations and augmenting them with a novel consistency constraint. Experiments on the Perspectrum dataset, consisting of claims and users' perspectives from various debate websites, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach over state-of-the-art baselines.

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