The COVMis-Stance dataset: Stance Detection on Twitter for COVID-19 Misinformation

5 Apr 2022  ·  Yanfang Hou, Peter van der Putten, Suzan Verberne ·

During the COVID-19 pandemic, large amounts of COVID-19 misinformation are spreading on social media. We are interested in the stance of Twitter users towards COVID-19 misinformation. However, due to the relative recent nature of the pandemic, only a few stance detection datasets fit our task. We have constructed a new stance dataset consisting of 2631 tweets annotated with the stance towards COVID-19 misinformation. In contexts with limited labeled data, we fine-tune our models by leveraging the MNLI dataset and two existing stance detection datasets (RumourEval and COVIDLies), and evaluate the model performance on our dataset. Our experimental results show that the model performs the best when fine-tuned sequentially on the MNLI dataset and the combination of the undersampled RumourEval and COVIDLies datasets. Our code and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/yanfangh/covid-rumor-stance

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MultiNLI CoAID FNC-1

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