A Benchmark for Cross-Domain Argumentative Stance Classification on Social Media

Allaway and McKeown (2020) categorize stance Argumentation is a pervasive human activity present in various classification into two categories based on the topic: topicphrase aspects of everyday life, which involves expressing and topic-position. For the former, the topic is typically viewpoints backed by reasons or attempting to persuade a noun phrase (including proper noun), such as nuclear others towards a specific perspective (Sobhani, Inkpen, and weapon. For the latter, the topic is a complete position Matwin 2015). In the context of argument mining, a crucial claim such as All countries should give up their nuclear task is argumentative stance classification (Küçük and Can weapons. Notably, the argument we introduce at the beginning 2020), where the goal is to classify an argument's stance as of this section would be classified as favor for the former either favor, against, or neutral regarding a given claim.