Semi-supervised Stance Detection of Tweets Via Distant Network Supervision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00614v2
• Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 07:06:46 GMT
• Title: Semi-supervised Stance Detection of Tweets Via Distant Network Supervision
• Authors: Subhabrata Dutta, Samiya Caur, Soumen Chakrabarti, Tanmoy Chakraborty
• Abstract summary: Homophily properties over the social network provide strong signal of coarse-grained user-level stance. We present SANDS, a new semi-supervised stance detector. Sands achieves a macro-F1 score of 0.55 (0.49) on US (India)-based datasets.
• Score: 32.86421107987556
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting and labeling stance in social media text is strongly motivated by hate speech detection, poll prediction, engagement forecasting, and concerted propaganda detection. Today's best neural stance detectors need large volumes of training data, which is difficult to curate given the fast-changing landscape of social media text and issues on which users opine. Homophily properties over the social network provide strong signal of coarse-grained user-level stance. But semi-supervised approaches for tweet-level stance detection fail to properly leverage homophily. In light of this, We present SANDS, a new semi-supervised stance detector. SANDS starts from very few labeled tweets. It builds multiple deep feature views of tweets. It also uses a distant supervision signal from the social network to provide a surrogate loss signal to the component learners. We prepare two new tweet datasets comprising over 236,000 politically tinted tweets from two demographics (US and India) posted by over 87,000 users, their follower-followee graph, and over 8,000 tweets annotated by linguists. SANDS achieves a macro-F1 score of 0.55 (0.49) on US (India)-based datasets, outperforming 17 baselines (including variants of SANDS) substantially, particularly for minority stance labels and noisy text. Numerous ablation experiments on SANDS disentangle the dynamics of textual and network-propagated stance signals.

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