x-stance: A Multilingual Multi-Target Dataset for Stance Detection
Table 3: Baseline scores in the cross-lingual setting. No Italian samples were seen during training, making this a case of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. The scores are reported as the macro-average of the F1-scores for ‘favor’ and for ‘against’.
['[EMPTY]', '[BOLD] de', '[BOLD] fr px', '[BOLD] it']
M-Bert performs consistently better than the previous baselines. Even the zero-shot performance in Italian, while significantly lower than the supervised scores, is much better than the target-wise majority class baseline.