Challenge: Existing approaches focus on leveraging textual content to identify stances, while they fail to reason with background knowledge or leverage the rich semantic and syntactic textual labels in news articles.
Approach: They propose a political perspective detection approach that leverages news text to enable multi-hop knowledge reasoning and incorporates textual cues as paragraph-level labels.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets.

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