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arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

Can Decision Models Understand Stance? Evaluating Jev Against General-Purpose LLMs

The paper evaluates Jev, a specialized decision model, on stance detection tasks using the VAST (English) and ZS-CSD (Chinese) datasets. Jev matches GPT‑5.6 and outperforms other general‑purpose LLMs on VAST, but lags behind stronger LLMs on ZS‑CSD, especially in distinguishing favor from against. The authors suggest that Jev’s limitations may stem from difficulties in understanding reply relationships and stance direction rather than conversation length.

By Xing Li, Jinzhong Ning, Yijia Zhang, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

MMDS-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models on Dynamic Stance in Social Media Interactions

MMDS-Bench is a new diagnostic benchmark for multimodal dynamic stance classification in social media parent‑reply interactions. It contains 3,482 multimodal instances annotated with a seven‑label stance taxonomy, plus an 800‑instance subset that demands structured reasoning over parent and reply understanding and stance‑relation inference. The benchmark also tags each instance with five challenge factors—multimodal fusion, parent framing, non‑literal expression, interaction reasoning, and label‑boundary ambiguity—and evaluates 12 multimodal large language models using a reference‑grounded LLM‑judge protocol, revealing that current models still struggle with relational inference beyond separate parent and reply comprehension.

By Yuzhe Ding, Kang He, Li Zheng, Shengwu Zheng, Teng Shi, Fei Li, Chong Teng, Donghong Ji
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Visual Framing for News Stance Detection via Image Generation

The paper introduces VFStance, a method that uses image generation to make implicit stance cues in news articles more explicit through visual framing. It targets article-level news stance detection, a task complicated by subtle, structurally complex texts. Experiments show VFStance outperforms existing methods, and a user study with 200 participants demonstrates that the visual framing makes stance signals more noticeable in a snippet-based news consumption setting.

By Dahyun Lee, Jiyoung Han, Kunwoo Park
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 5

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

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.

By Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman, Maram Kurdi, Saad Ezzini, Asma Yamani, Ahmed Ashraf