Enhancing Stance Detection on Social Media via Core Views Discovery
Yu Yan, Yinghan Shen, Teli Liu, Xuhui Jiang, Dechun Yin · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2024
Stance detection aims to identify the expressed attitude towards a target from the text, which is significant for learning public cognition from social media. The short and implicit nature of social media users’ expressions potentially results in the stance understanding bias of the model. To address this problem, introducing external background information is helpful to mitigate these biases and enhance explainability. The core view, reflecting the motivations and reasons behind an individual’s stance toward the target, can be summarized and extracted from collective tweets, which can serve as a reference for stance detection. In this study, we propose the Stance Detection via Core View Discovery (SD-CVM), where the core views are used for background information modeling. Specifically, we construct a joint classifier combining the semantic understanding of tweets and their relevant core views from the public. We utilize the Large Language Model (LLM) to extract core views with stances from tweets and use these core views as background references for tweets. To further optimize the tweet understanding, we develop the contrastive and rebalancing mechanism by incorporating stance supervision signals for training. Experiments on two representative datasets demonstrate the excellent performance of our method.