Stance detection

There are several types of stance detection tasks. “In-target” refers to the tasks where both the training and test datasets have the same target; “cross-target” refers to the tasks where models are trained on source targets and then evaluated on a dataset with different targets. Finally, zero-shot stance detection is where the targets can be anything and there is no specific training data.

There is also a variation in the type of targets: noun phrases (e.g., a person) or claims.