Abstract, Align, Predict: Zero-Shot Stance Detection via Cognitive Inductive Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13470v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:28:37 GMT
• Title: Abstract, Align, Predict: Zero-Shot Stance Detection via Cognitive Inductive Reasoning
• Authors: Jun Ma, Fuqiang Niu, Dong Li, Jinzhou Cao, Genan Dai, Bowen Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) aims to identify the stance of text toward previously unseen targets.<n>Inspired by human cognitive reasoning, we propose the Cognitive Inductive Reasoning Framework (CIRF)<n>Experiments on SemEval-2016, VAST, and COVID-19-Stance benchmarks show that CIRF establishes new state-of-the-art results.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) aims to identify the stance of text toward previously unseen targets, a setting where conventional supervised models often fail due to reliance on labeled data and shallow lexical cues. Inspired by human cognitive reasoning, we propose the Cognitive Inductive Reasoning Framework (CIRF), which abstracts transferable reasoning schemas from unlabeled text and encodes them as concept-level logic. To integrate these schemas with input arguments, we introduce a Schema-Enhanced Graph Kernel Model (SEGKM) that dynamically aligns local and global reasoning structures. Experiments on SemEval-2016, VAST, and COVID-19-Stance benchmarks show that CIRF establishes new state-of-the-art results, outperforming strong ZSSD baselines by 1.0, 4.5, and 3.3 percentage points in macro-F1, respectively, and achieving comparable accuracy with 70\% fewer labeled examples. We will release the full code upon publication.

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