Stance Analysis

Stance analysis aims to automatically determine the author's opinion (e.g., support, opposition, neutrality) towards a specific target within a text, primarily focusing on social media and news articles. Current research heavily utilizes large language models (LLMs), often employing prompting techniques or fine-tuning on large datasets to improve classification accuracy, with graph convolutional networks also showing promise in analyzing relationships between entities and stances. This field is crucial for understanding public opinion, combating misinformation, and improving the analysis of online discourse across various domains, including political science, public health, and social sciences.