arXiv Computation and Language October 5, 2026 By Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman, Maram Kurdi, Saad Ezzini, Asma Yamani, Ahmed Ashraf

Mawqif-XT: An Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Target Stance Detection

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The paper introduces Mawqif-XT, a new Arabic benchmark dataset comprising 996 manually annotated tweets from three public targets: Women Driving, E-Cars, and Trimester System. Each tweet is labeled for stance, sentiment, and sarcasm following the Mawqif annotation scheme, and the dataset is intended as a held‑out evaluation set to test cross‑target generalization. Baseline results are provided using Arabic and multilingual transformer models as well as zero‑shot large language models, enabling reproducible evaluation alongside the original Mawqif dataset.

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