Not All or None: Dynamic Construction of Target-aware Memory Graph for Conversational Stance Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29066v1
• Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:42:21 GMT
• Title: Not All or None: Dynamic Construction of Target-aware Memory Graph for Conversational Stance Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose target-aware Memory Graph TamGraph, a novel method that dynamically leverages target-related statements for conversational stance detection.<n>Our TamGraph employs a stepwise, entropy-guided backtracking mechanism to selectively activate memory from historical conversations.<n> Experimental results on both English and Chinese benchmarks demonstrate that our TamGraph substantially improves LLM performance on conversational stance detection.
• Score: 47.347568292665024
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Stance detection is crucial for understanding the underlying attitude of an expression towards a target. Conversational stance detection is a more challenging stance detection task in real-world social media scenarios, as it involves detecting the user's stance by leveraging the target-related historical statements across conversational sessions. In this paper, we propose target-aware Memory Graph TamGraph, a novel method that dynamically leverages target-related statements for conversational stance detection. Instead of considering all preceding historical conversations or using no prior conversation information for stance detection, our TamGraph employs a stepwise, entropy-guided backtracking mechanism to selectively activate memory from historical conversations and dynamically constructs a target-aware graph to model the stance relations among utterances. This allows the exploitation of target-related information from the conversation history for stance detection while preventing the introduction of noise. Experimental results on both English and Chinese benchmarks demonstrate that our TamGraph substantially improves LLM performance on conversational stance detection.

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