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JointCL: A Joint Contrastive Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Stance Detection

  • Bin Liang
  • , Qinglin Zhu
  • , Xiang Li
  • , Min Yang
  • , Lin Gui
  • , Yulan He
  • , Ruifeng Xu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
  • University of Warwick
  • Alan Turing Institute
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory

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Abstract

Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) aims to detect the stance for an unseen target during the inference stage. In this paper, we propose a joint contrastive learning (JointCL) framework, which consists of stance contrastive learning and target-aware prototypical graph contrastive learning. Specifically, a stance contrastive learning strategy is employed to better generalize stance features for unseen targets. Further, we build a prototypical graph for each instance to learn the target-based representation, in which the prototypes are deployed as a bridge to share the graph structures between the known targets and the unseen ones. Then a novel target-aware prototypical graph contrastive learning strategy is devised to generalize the reasoning ability of target-based stance representations to the unseen targets. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets show that the proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in the ZSSD task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
EditorsSmaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages81-91
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781955917216
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume1
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period22/05/2227/05/22

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