Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications where sentiment analysis might be sub-optimal.  This paper surveys the work on stance detection  and situates its usage within current opinion mining techniques in social media. An exhaustive review of stance detection techniques on social media is presented , including the task definition, the different types of targets in stance detection, the features set used, and the various machine learning approaches applied. The survey reports the state-of-the-art results on the existing benchmark datasets on stance detection, and discusses the most effective approaches. In addition, this study explores the emerging trends and the different applications of stance detection on social media. The study concludes by providing discussion of the gaps in the current existing research and highlighting the possible future directions for stance detection on social media.
Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been a growing research interest for developing effective methods for stance detection methods varying among multiple communities including natural language processing, web science, and social computing. This paper surveys the work on stance detection within those communities and situates its usage within current opinion mining techniques in social media. It presents an exhaustive review of stance detection techniques on social media , including the task definition, different types of targets in stance detection, features set used, and various machine learning approaches applied. The survey reports state-of-the-art results on the existing benchmark datasets on stance detection, and discusses the most effective approaches. In addition, this study explores the emerging trends and different applications of stance detection on social media. The study concludes by discussing the gaps in the current existing research and highlights the possible future directions for stance detection on social media.
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