The paper introduces a novel method called SPLAENet for Stance Prediction in misinformative social media content.
SPLAENet utilizes a dual cross-attention mechanism, hierarchical attention network, and emotions to distinguish between different stance categories in user-generated content.
The method incorporates label fusion using distance-metric learning to align extracted features with stance labels, enhancing accuracy in distinguishing stances.
Experiments show that SPLAENet outperforms existing methods with significant improvements in accuracy and F1-score across different datasets, validating its effectiveness in stance detection.