Challenge: Existing research is conducted in monolingual setting on English datasets, whereas in other low-resource languages, it lacks sufficient data for training quality stance detection models.
Approach: They propose a knowledge elicitation and retrieval framework that leverages the capability of large language models for stance knowledge acquisition and matches the target language input to the most relevant stance information.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on multilingual datasets and competitive baselines.

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