4 papers
Wait! There's a Way Out: A Decision Mechanism for Forecasting Conversational Derailment
Laerdon Kim, Vivian Nguyen, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Forecasting conversational derailment is the task of predicting, as the conversation unfolds, whether it will eventually derail into personal attacks. Since forecasting models oper…
Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models
Son Quoc Tran, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Nicholas Chernogor +2
We often rely on our intuition to anticipate the direction of a conversation. Endowing automated systems with similar foresight can enable them to assist human-human interactions.…
A Similarity Measure for Comparing Conversational Dynamics
Sang Min Jung, Kaixiang Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
The quality of a conversation goes beyond the individual quality of each reply, and instead emerges from how these combine into interactional dynamics that give the conversation it…
How Did We Get Here? Summarizing Conversation Dynamics
Yilun Hua, Nicholas Chernogor, Yuzhe Gu +3
Throughout a conversation, the way participants interact with each other is in constant flux: their tones may change, they may resort to different strategies to convey their points…