We introduce PAST-TIDE, our stance detection system addressing both subtasks of the StanceNakba Shared Task at NakbaNLP@LREC-COLING 2026. The main idea is statement tuning.
arXiv:2604. 00878v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Actor-level stance detection aims to determine an author expressed position toward specific geopolitical actors mentioned or implicated in a text.
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Md. Milon Islam, Sk. Imran Hossain, K. M. Azharul Hasan
arXiv:2607. 24191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational stance detection has shifted from static text analysis to dynamic multimodal modeling.
By Heyan Chai, Xin Li, Wenjie Wang, Jianyang Qin, Chaoyang Li, Lu Wang, Hao Chen, Qing Liao
arXiv:2508. 03250v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The increasing amount of political debates and politics-related discussions calls for the definition of novel computational methods to automatically analyse such content with the final goal of lightening up political deliberation to citizens.
By Deborah Dore, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
arXiv:2608. 10810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion understanding in discourse requires reasoning beyond surface sentiment because speakers often convey affect through indirect, implicit, polite, ironic, or deliberately mismatched expressions.
By Zhenyan Zheng, Yunyao Zhang, Junxi Sheng, Junqing Yu, Zikai Song
arXiv:2607. 10312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid proliferation of online polarization threatens social cohesion, necessitating robust automated detection systems that operate effectively across diverse linguistic contexts.
By Muhammad Abdullahi Said
arXiv:2602. 17907v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity.
By Raymond Li, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Chuyuan Li, Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
arXiv:2606. 15307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hateful and propagandistic memes exploit the interplay between images and text to convey harmful intent that neither modality reveals alone.
By Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat, Firoj Alam
arXiv:2602. 17907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity.
By Raymond Li, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Chuyuan Li, Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
arXiv:2606. 03334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Our submission presented in this paper is for SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Text Classification Challenge - Polarization Detection and it covers all three subtasks: (1) binary polarization detection, (2) polarization type classification and (3) polarization manifestation identification.
By Pritam Kadasi, Anuj Tiwari, Mayank Singh
arXiv:2607. 02079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HaloGuard 1.
By Navaneeth Sangameswaran, Preetham S, Ashmiya Lenin
arXiv:2606. 27717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prosodic emphasis varies across languages, emotions, and speaking styles, yet existing emphasis detection models are largely trained and evaluated on monolingual neutral read speech.
By Megan Wei, Deepali Aneja, Jiaqi Su, Yunyun Wang, Haonan Chen, Zeyu Jin