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Online conversations can sometimes take a turn for the worse, either due to systematic cultural differences, accidental misunderstandings, or mere malice. Automatically forecasting derailment in public online conversations provides an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yova Kementchedjhieva , Anders Søgaard

Forecasting conversation derailment can be useful in real-world settings such as online content moderation, conflict resolution, and business negotiations. However, despite language models' success at identifying offensive speech present in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yunfan Zhang , Kathleen McKeown , Smaranda Muresan

Online discussions often derail into toxic exchanges between participants. Recent efforts mostly focused on detecting antisocial behavior after the fact, by analyzing single comments in isolation. To provide more timely notice to human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Jonathan P. Chang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Online conversations are particularly susceptible to derailment, which can manifest itself in the form of toxic communication patterns including disrespectful comments and abuse. Forecasting conversation derailment predicts signs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Enas Altarawneh , Ameeta Agrawal , Michael Jenkin , Manos Papagelis

Online conversations are particularly susceptible to derailment, which can manifest itself in the form of toxic communication patterns like disrespectful comments or verbal abuse. Forecasting conversation derailment predicts signs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Enas Altarawneh , Ammeta Agrawal , Michael Jenkin , Manos Papagelis

Forecasting conversational derailment is the task of predicting, as the conversation unfolds, whether it will eventually derail into personal attacks. Since forecasting models operate in an online fashion, they must decide whether to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Laerdon Kim , Vivian Nguyen , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Software projects thrive on the involvement and contributions of individuals from different backgrounds. However, toxic language and negative interactions can hinder the participation and retention of contributors and alienate newcomers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Mia Mohammad Imran , Robert Zita , Rebekah Copeland , Preetha Chatterjee , Rahat Rizvi Rahman , Kostadin Damevski

Personal attacks in the context of social media conversations often lead to fast-paced derailment, leading to even more harmful exchanges being made. State-of-the-art systems for the detection of such conversational derailment often make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Steven Leung , Filippos Papapolyzos

Huge amounts of textual conversations occur online every day, where multiple conversations take place concurrently. Interleaved conversations lead to difficulties in not only following the ongoing discussions but also extracting relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Tao Yu , Shafiq Joty

We investigate the task of modeling open-domain, multi-turn, unstructured, multi-participant, conversational dialogue. We specifically study the effect of incorporating different elements of the conversation. Unlike previous efforts, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Rami Al-Rfou , Marc Pickett , Javier Snaider , Yun-hsuan Sung , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

Dialogue disentanglement aims to detach the chronologically ordered utterances into several independent sessions. Conversation utterances are essentially organized and described by the underlying discourse, and thus dialogue disentanglement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Bobo Li , Hao Fei , Fei Li , Shengqiong Wu , Lizi Liao , Yinwei Wei , Tat-Seng Chua , Donghong Ji

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. Recent work on developing models with this predictive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Son Quoc Tran , Tushaar Gangavarapu , Nicholas Chernogor , Jonathan P. Chang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Open-domain multi-turn conversations mainly have three features, which are hierarchical semantic structure, redundant information, and long-term dependency. Grounded on these, selecting relevant context becomes a challenge step for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lei Shen , Haolan Zhan , Xin Shen , Yang Feng

How to improve the quality of conversations in online communities has attracted considerable attention recently. Having engaged, urbane, and reactive online conversations has a critical effect on the social life of Internet users. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yunhao Jiao , Cheng Li , Fei Wu , Qiaozhu Mei

Toxic interactions in Open Source Software (OSS) communities reduce contributor engagement and threaten project sustainability. Preventing such toxicity before it emerges requires a clear understanding of how harmful conversations unfold.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Mia Mohammad Imran , Robert Zita , Rahat Rizvi Rahman , Preetha Chatterjee , Kostadin Damevski

Human conversations can evolve in many different ways, creating challenges for automatic understanding and summarization. Goal-oriented conversations often have meaningful sub-dialogue structure, but it can be highly domain-dependent. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Bo-Ru Lu , Yushi Hu , Hao Cheng , Noah A. Smith , Mari Ostendorf

Conversation disentanglement aims to group utterances into detached sessions, which is a fundamental task in processing multi-party conversations. Existing methods have two main drawbacks. First, they overemphasize pairwise utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chengyu Huang , Zheng Zhang , Hao Fei , Lizi Liao

Conversational grounding is a collaborative mechanism for establishing mutual knowledge among participants engaged in a dialogue. This experimental study analyzes information-seeking conversations to investigate the capabilities of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Kristiina Jokinen , Phillip Schneider , Taiga Mori

As the online world continues its exponential growth, interpersonal communication has come to play an increasingly central role in opinion formation and change. In order to help users better engage with each other online, we study a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xingshan Zeng , Jing Li , Lu Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Recent research has made impressive progress in single-turn dialogue modelling. In the multi-turn setting, however, current models are still far from satisfactory. One major challenge is the frequently occurred coreference and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen , Rongzhi Zhang , Fei Sun , Pengwei Hu , Cheng Niu , Jie Zhou
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