Challenge: Stance detection on social media platforms like Twitter is challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs), as emerging slang and colloquial language in online conversations often contain deeply implicit stance labels.
Approach: They propose to embed COT reasonings into a traditional RoBERTa-based stance detection pipeline by embedding COT stance reasonings and integrating them into slang-based models.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves SOTA performance on multiple stance detection datasets collected from social media.

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