{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/zero-shot-stance-detection-a-dataset-and","title":"Zero-Shot Stance Detection: A Dataset and Model using Generalized Topic Representations","arxiv_id":"2010.03640","date":"2020-10-07","proceeding":"EMNLP 2020 11","authors":["Emily Allaway","Kathleen McKeown"],"abstract":"Stance detection is an important component of understanding hidden influences in everyday life. Since there are thousands of potential topics to take a stance on, most with little to no training data, we focus on zero-shot stance detection: classifying stance from no training examples. In this paper, we present a new dataset for zero-shot stance detection that captures a wider range of topics and lexical variation than in previous datasets. Additionally, we propose a new model for stance detection that implicitly captures relationships between topics using generalized topic representations and show that this model improves performance on a number of challenging linguistic phenomena.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03640v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03640v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"zero-shot-stance-detection-a-dataset-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/emilyallaway/zero-shot-stance","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"stance-detection","task_name":"Stance Detection"},{"task_slug":"zero-shot-stance-detection","task_name":"Zero-Shot Stance Detection"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"vast","name":"VAST","full_name":"VAried Stance Topics"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2010.03640","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}