Challenge: Existing methods for stance detection are not applicable to zero-shot and few-shot scenarios.
Approach: They propose a model that integrates commonsense knowledge into a stance detection model.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on zero-shot and few-shot stance detection tasks.

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Challenge: Stance Reasoner is a model for zero-shot stance detection on social media platforms that can be used to extract opinions from opinionated content.
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Challenge: Recent studies on zero-shot and few-shot stance detection neglect implicit yet semantically important targets.
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Challenge: Existing stance detection datasets are limited to a limited set of specific targets . current models are limited in their ability to detect large numbers of unseen targets based on a large number of unidentified targets.
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Challenge: Until recently, zero-shot stance detection was limited to in-domain tasks.
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Stance Detection on Social Media with Background Knowledge (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies of stance detection focus on learning stance information about specific targets from context, but in real-world scenarios, we usually have a certain understanding of a target when we express our stance on it.
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