Stance detection on social media: State of the art and trends

A AlDayel, W Magdy - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social
and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been a …

A systematic review of machine learning techniques for stance detection and its applications

N Alturayeif, H Luqman, M Ahmed - Neural Computing and Applications, 2023 - Springer
Stance detection is an evolving opinion mining research area motivated by the vast increase
in the variety and volume of user-generated content. In this regard, considerable research …

We can detect your bias: Predicting the political ideology of news articles

R Baly, GDS Martino, J Glass, P Nakov - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.05338, 2020 - arxiv.org
We explore the task of predicting the leading political ideology or bias of news articles. First,
we collect and release a large dataset of 34,737 articles that were manually annotated for …

A survey on stance detection for mis-and disinformation identification

M Hardalov, A Arora, P Nakov, I Augenstein - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Understanding attitudes expressed in texts, also known as stance detection, plays an
important role in systems for detecting false information online, be it misinformation …

Convolutional neural network with margin loss for fake news detection

MH Goldani, R Safabakhsh, S Momtazi - Information Processing & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of online news platforms such as social media, news blogs, and online
newspapers in recent years and their facilitated features such as swift information flow, easy …

POLITICS: Pretraining with same-story article comparison for ideology prediction and stance detection

Y Liu, XF Zhang, D Wegsman, N Beauchamp… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Ideology is at the core of political science research. Yet, there still does not exist general-
purpose tools to characterize and predict ideology across different genres of text. To this …

Exploratory analysis of covid-19 tweets using topic modeling, umap, and digraphs

C Ordun, S Purushotham, E Raff - arxiv preprint arxiv:2005.03082, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper illustrates five different techniques to assess the distinctiveness of topics, key
terms and features, speed of information dissemination, and network behaviors for Covid19 …

[HTML][HTML] Social media polarization and echo chambers in the context of COVID-19: Case study

J Jiang, X Ren, E Ferrara - JMIRx med, 2021 - xmed.jmir.org
Background: Social media chatter in 2020 has been largely dominated by the COVID-19
pandemic. Existing research shows that COVID-19 discourse is highly politicized, with …

Few-shot cross-lingual stance detection with sentiment-based pre-training

M Hardalov, A Arora, P Nakov… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
The goal of stance detection is to determine the viewpoint expressed in a piece of text
towards a target. These viewpoints or contexts are often expressed in many different …

Retweet-bert: political leaning detection using language features and information diffusion on social networks

J Jiang, X Ren, E Ferrara - … of the international AAAI conference on web …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Estimating the political leanings of social media users is a challenging and ever more
pressing problem given the increase in social media consumption. We introduce Retweet …