--- title: "Parinaz Sobhani — author profile and papers" description: "Parinaz Sobhani: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2017), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parinaz-sobhani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parinaz-sobhani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Parinaz Sobhani # Parinaz Sobhani Parinaz Sobhani works on stance detection in social media text: working out, from a short post, whether its author supports or opposes a given target. Sobhani's papers here centre on tweets about public figures and issues. They build labelled collections through crowdsourced annotation, design label schemes that hold up in practice, and test models that infer stance. The work sits within [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) research. The most cited of these papers is [SemEval-2016 Task 6: Detecting Stance in Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2016-semeval-2016-task-6-detecting/) (2016). It set up a shared evaluation in which systems label a tweet as favouring, opposing or neither toward a predefined target. The accompanying corpus has 4,870 English tweets across six targets familiar to a US audience. Tweets were gathered with stance-bearing hashtags, which were then deleted so that systems could not rely on them as easy clues. The task also merged a nearly empty neutral class into a broader "no inferable stance" category. A year later, [A Dataset for Multi-Target Stance Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sobhani-2017-dataset-multi-target-stance-detection/) (2017) moved beyond judging one target at a time. It released 4,455 tweets from the 2016 US presidential campaign, each annotated for stance toward two candidates together, along with a larger set of unlabelled election tweets. The newer work turns to the way opinions about related targets, such as rival candidates, depend on one another. It treats joint stance prediction as a sequence-to-sequence problem with a bidirectional GRU encoder. Between 2015 and 2018 Sobhani's papers carry a University of Ottawa affiliation. Co-authors include [Xiaodan Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodan-zhu/), [Diana Inkpen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-inkpen/), [Saif Mohammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saif-mohammad/), [Svetlana Kiritchenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/svetlana-kiritchenko/) and [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/). 2 papers on this site · 2016–2017 Parinaz Sobhani has 2 papers on this site, in 2016–2017, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Xiaodan Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodan-zhu/), [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/), [Diana Inkpen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-inkpen/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001813396) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3210-3947) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001813396) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001813396) · [1 984 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001813396&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parinaz-sobhani/#papers) · [514 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parinaz-sobhani/cited-by/) · 1 more work in our library The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Parinaz+Sobhani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Parinaz+Sobhani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Parinaz+Sobhani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Parinaz+Sobhani) ## Affiliations - [University of Ottawa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-ottawa/) · Ottawa, Canada —2015–2018 on 11 papers - [Sharif University of Technology](https://ror.org/024c2fq17) · Tehran, Iran —2011 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sobhani-2017-dataset-multi-target-stance-detection/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2016-semeval-2016-task-6-detecting/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SemEval-2016 Task 6: Detecting Stance in Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2016-semeval-2016-task-6-detecting/)** *(2016 · 1 196 citations)* This paper describes the first shared task on stance detection in tweets. Given a tweet and a pre-chosen target, a system must decide whether the author is in favor, against, or neither. The organizers built a dataset of 4,870 English tweets covering six targets well known in the US. Tweets were collected through… 2. **[A Dataset for Multi-Target Stance Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sobhani-2017-dataset-multi-target-stance-detection/)** *(2017 · 190 citations)* Most stance classifiers judge an author's position toward each target separately. However, attitudes toward related targets often depend on each other, such as rival candidates in an election. Sobhani, Inkpen and Zhu address this gap with the Multi-Target Stance Dataset. It contains 4,455 tweets about the 2016 US… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Xiaodan Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodan-zhu/) ×2 - [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/) - [Diana Inkpen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-inkpen/) - [Saif Mohammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saif-mohammad/) - [Svetlana Kiritchenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/svetlana-kiritchenko/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 514 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [77 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parinaz-sobhani/cited-by/).