This definition of stance is used in several stance detection studies. For instance, in studies performed on the text genres web debate forums (Somasundaran and Wiebe, 2010; Anand et al., 2011; Walker et al., 2012; Hasan and Ng, 2013) , news paper text (Ferreira and Vlachos, 2016; Fake News Challenge, 2017) and tweets (Augenstein et al., 2016;<cite> Mohammad et al., 2017)</cite> .