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Attention-Based Model for Accurate Stance Detection

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2022)

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Effective representation learning is an essential building block for achieving many natural language processing tasks such as stance detection as performed implicitly by humans. Stance detection can assist in understanding how individuals react to certain information by revealing the user’s stance on a particular topic. In this work, we propose a new attention-based model for learning feature representations and show its effectiveness in the task of stance detection. The proposed model is based on transfer learning and multi-head attention mechanisms. Specifically, we use BERT and word2vec models to learn text representation vectors from the data and pass both of them simultaneously to the multi-head attention layer to help focus on the best learning features. We present five variations of the model, each with a different combination of BERT and word2vec embeddings for the query and value parameters of the attention layer. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated against multiple baseline and state-of-the-art models. The best of the five proposed variations of the model improved the accuracy on average by 0.4% and achieved 68.4% accuracy for multi-classification, while the best accuracy for binary classification is 86.1% with a 1.3% improvement.

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    Omama Hamad & Khaled Shaban

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Hamad, O., Hamdi, A., Shaban, K. (2022). Attention-Based Model for Accurate Stance Detection. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13502. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16270-1_18

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