Détection non supervisée de position dans les médias sociaux : une approche générique
Abstract
With the ever-growing use of social média to express opinions on the national and international
stage, unsupervised methods of stance detection are increasingly important to handle
the task without costly annotation of data. The current unsupervised state-of-the-art models
are designed for specific network types, either homophilic or heterophilic, and they fail to
generalize to both. In this paper, we first analyze the generalization ability of recent baselines to
these two very different network types. Then, we conduct extensive experiments with a baseline
model based on text embeddings propagated with a graph neural network that generalizes
well to heterophilic and homophilic networks. We show that it outperforms, on average, other
state-of-the-art methods across the two network types. Additionally, we show that combining
textual and network information outperforms using text only, and that the language model size
has only a limited impact on the model performance.