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New TikStance dataset enables multimodal political stance analysis on TikTok · 2 sources tracked

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Researchers have introduced TikStance, a new dataset designed for analyzing political conversations on TikTok. This multimodal dataset includes 161 videos and over 13,000 comments, focusing on political figures like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. TikStance preserves both audiovisual information and the hierarchical structure of comment threads, enabling more nuanced stance detection within political discourse. AI

IMPACT Enables more sophisticated analysis of political discourse on social media platforms, potentially improving AI's understanding of nuanced public opinion.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes the release of a new academic dataset for research purposes.

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New TikStance dataset enables multimodal political stance analysis on TikTok · 2 sources tracked

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yazhi Zhang, Fuqiang Niu, Bowen Zhang ·

    TikStance: A Multimodal and Hierarchical Dataset for Multi-target Stance Analysis in TikTok Political Conversations

    arXiv:2607.15240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Political discourse has increasingly moved to short-video platforms, yet computational analysis of such content remains constrained by the scarcity of datasets that jointly preserve audiovisual information and hierarchical conversat…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Bowen Zhang ·

    TikStance: A Multimodal and Hierarchical Dataset for Multi-target Stance Analysis in TikTok Political Conversations

    Political discourse has increasingly moved to short-video platforms, yet computational analysis of such content remains constrained by the scarcity of datasets that jointly preserve audiovisual information and hierarchical conversations. Here we present TikStance, a multimodal an…

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