Table 12.

Comparison of the performance of the stance classifier and the hashtag-based classifier over four evaluation measures

	Stance classifier	Hashtag-based classifier
No. of testing examples	37,048	37,048
Alpha	$45.8\%$	$4.3\%$
$\overline{F_1}(-,+)$	$60.3\%$	$7.9\%$
$Accuracy$	$59.5\%$	$37.2\%$
$Accuracy\pm 1$ ($-,+$)	$90.5\%$	$99.6\%$