Challenge: Until recently, zero-shot stance detection was limited to in-domain tasks.
Approach: They propose a method for stance detection that trains a model that can generalize well to unseen targets across multiple domains.
Outcome: The proposed method generalizes well to unseen targets across multiple domains over baselines on most benchmarks.

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