Stance Classification Dataset


This page is a distribution site of the dataset for the task of Stance Classification. Data available on this page have been collected from a popular online debate platform called CreateDebate.

The problem of Stance Classification for which this dataset is intended is described in the following papers:

  • Stance Classification of Ideological Debates: Data, Models, Features, and Constraints
    Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng
    Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2013.

  • Frame Semantics for Stance Classification
    Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng
    Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2013.

  • Extra-Linguistic Constraints on Stance Recognition in Ideological Debates
    Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng
    Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Short Paper, 2013.




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