Your spouse needs professional help: Determining the Contextual Appropriateness of Messages through Modeling Social Relationships

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02763v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 04:06:05 GMT
• Title: Your spouse needs professional help: Determining the Contextual Appropriateness of Messages through Modeling Social Relationships
• Authors: David Jurgens, Agrima Seth, Jackson Sargent, Athena Aghighi, Michael Geraci
• Abstract summary: We introduce a new approach to identifying inappropriate communication by explicitly modeling the social relationship between the individuals. We show that large language models can readily incorporate relationship information to accurately identify appropriateness in a given context. We also demonstrate that contextual-appropriateness judgments are predictive of other social factors expressed in language such as condescension and politeness.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Understanding interpersonal communication requires, in part, understanding the social context and norms in which a message is said. However, current methods for identifying offensive content in such communication largely operate independent of context, with only a few approaches considering community norms or prior conversation as context. Here, we introduce a new approach to identifying inappropriate communication by explicitly modeling the social relationship between the individuals. We introduce a new dataset of contextually-situated judgments of appropriateness and show that large language models can readily incorporate relationship information to accurately identify appropriateness in a given context. Using data from online conversations and movie dialogues, we provide insight into how the relationships themselves function as implicit norms and quantify the degree to which context-sensitivity is needed in different conversation settings. Further, we also demonstrate that contextual-appropriateness judgments are predictive of other social factors expressed in language such as condescension and politeness.

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