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Description: Going Beyond Text in Cross-lingual Stance Detection
The VaxxStance shared task is part of IberLEF 2021, the 3rd Workshop on Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum , co-located with the SEPLN Conference, which will be held in September 2021 in XXXXX, Spain.
The aim of VaxxStance@IberLEF 2021 is to detect stance in social media on a very controversial and trendy topic, namely, the Antivaxxers movement, in two languages: Basque and Spanish . Following previous tasks (Mohammad et al. 2016, Taule et al. 2018, Cignarella et al. 2020), the aim is to determine whether a given tweet expresses an AGAINST, FAVOR or NEUTRAL (NONE) stance towards a previously defined topic.
In the two examples given below, the tweet on the left expresses a FAVOR stance towards vaccines whereas the one on the right conveys an AGAINST stance.
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