Target Really Matters: Target-aware Contrastive Learning and Consistency Regularization for Few-shot Stance Detection
Rui Liu, Zheng Lin, Huishan Ji, Jiangnan Li, Peng Fu, Weiping Wang
Abstract
Stance detection aims to identify the attitude from an opinion towards a certain target. Despite the significant progress on this task, it is extremely time-consuming and budget-unfriendly to collect sufficient high-quality labeled data for every new target under fully-supervised learning, whereas unlabeled data can be collected easier. Therefore, this paper is devoted to few-shot stance detection and investigating how to achieve satisfactory results in semi-supervised settings. As a target-oriented task, the core idea of semi-supervised few-shot stance detection is to make better use of target-relevant information from labeled and unlabeled data. Therefore, we develop a novel target-aware semi-supervised framework. Specifically, we propose a target-aware contrastive learning objective to learn more distinguishable representations for different targets. Such an objective can be easily applied with or without unlabeled data. Furthermore, to thoroughly exploit the unlabeled data and facilitate the model to learn target-relevant stance features in the opinion content, we explore a simple but effective target-aware consistency regularization combined with a self-training strategy. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach can achieve state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets in the few-shot setting.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.605
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6944–6954
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.605
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Rui Liu, Zheng Lin, Huishan Ji, Jiangnan Li, Peng Fu, and Weiping Wang. 2022. Target Really Matters: Target-aware Contrastive Learning and Consistency Regularization for Few-shot Stance Detection. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6944–6954, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Target Really Matters: Target-aware Contrastive Learning and Consistency Regularization for Few-shot Stance Detection (Liu et al., COLING 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/2022.coling-1.605.pdf
- Code
- monolith-v1/stcc