UstanceBR: a multimodal language resource for stance prediction

Pereira, Camila, Pavan, Matheus, Yoon, Sungwon, Ramos, Ricelli, Costa, Pablo, Cavalheiro, Lais, Paraboni, Ivandre

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

This work introduces UstanceBR, a multimodal corpus in the Brazilian Portuguese Twitter domain for target-based stance prediction. The corpus comprises 86.8 k labelled stances towards selected target topics, and extensive network information about the users who published these stances on social media. In this article we describe the corpus multimodal data, and a number of usage examples in both in-domain and zero-shot stance prediction based on text- and network-related information, which are intended to provide initial baseline results for future studies in the field.