StanceMining: An open-source stance detection library supporting time-series and visualization

AbstractDespite the size of the field, stance detection has remained inaccessible to most researchers due to implementation barriers. Here we present a library that allows easy access to an end-to-end stance modelling solution. This library comes complete with everything needed to go from a corpus of documents, to exploring stance trends in a corpus through an interactive dashboard. To support this, we provide stance target extraction, stance detection, stance time-series trend inference, and an exploratory dashboard, all available in an easy-to-use library. We hope that this library can increase the accessibility of stance detection for the wider community of those who could benefit from this method.