StanceEval 2026: The Second Stance Detection Shared Task

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-02

Comments: 14 pages total (8 pages main paper + 6 pages appendix), 5 tables in the main paper, excluding the appendix

Project page: https://stanceeval.github.io/variation

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Sources

• Mawqif-XT: An Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Target Stance Detection
• Prompting and Fine-Tuning Open-Sourced Large Language Models for Stance Classification
• MLSD: A Novel Few-Shot Learning Approach to Enhance Cross-Target and Cross-Domain Stance Detection
• Zero-Shot Stance Detection in the Wild: Dynamic Target Generation and Multi-Target Adaptation
• Large Language Models Meet Stance Detection: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions
• DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter
• Jais and Jais-chat: Arabic-Centric Foundation and Instruction-Tuned Open Generative Large Language Models
• LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report

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