Stance Detection on Social Media: State of the Art and Trends

Understand

Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal.

• There has been a growing research interest for developing effective methods for stance detection methods varying among multiple communities including natural language processing, web science, and social computing.
• This paper surveys the work on stance detection within those communities and situates its usage within current opinion mining techniques in social media.
• It presents an exhaustive review of stance detection techniques on social media, including the task definition, different types of targets in stance detection, features set used, and various machine learning approaches applied.