Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Stance Detection with Sentiment-Based Pre-Training

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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 languages depending on the user and the platform, which can be a local news outlet, a social media platform, a news forum, etc. Most research in stance detection, however, has been limited to working with a single language and on a few limited targets, with little work on cross-lingual stance detection. Moreover, non-English sources of labelled data are often scarce and present additional challenges. Recently, large multilingual language models have substantially improved the performance on many non-English tasks, especially such with limited numbers of examples. This highlights the importance of model pre-training and its ability to learn from few examples. In this paper, we present the most comprehensive study of cross-lingual stance detection to date: we experiment with 15 diverse datasets in 12 languages from 6 language families, and with 6 low-resource evaluation settings each. For our experiments, we build on pattern-exploiting training, proposing the addition of a novel label encoder to simplify the verbalisation procedure. We further propose sentiment-based generation of stance data for pre-training, which shows sizeable improvement of more than 6% F1 absolute in low-shot settings compared to several strong baselines.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Vol/bind36
Udgave nummer10
Sider (fra-til)10729-10737.
ISSN1045-0823
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022
Begivenhed36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22) - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Varighed: 28 feb. 20221 mar. 2022

Konference

Konference36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
LandCanada
ByVancouver, BC
Periode28/02/202201/03/2022

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