Zero-Shot Stance Detection in the Wild: Dynamic Target Generation and Multi-Target Adaptation
This study addresses the challenge of stance detection in real-world social media, where targets are often undefined and dynamically evolving, rendering traditional methods ineffective. The work introduces, for the first time, an open-domain zero-shot stance detection task that leverages large language models (LLMs) to dynamically generate stance targets and adapt to multiple targets without requiring prior target knowledge. Key contributions include the construction of the first Chinese social media stance dataset with multidimensional evaluation metrics and the design of both integrated and two-stage fine-tuning frameworks. Experimental results demonstrate that the two-stage fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B achieves a composite score of 66.99% in target identification, while the integrated fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B attains an F1 score of 79.26% in stance detection.