Keeping Up Appearances: Computational Modeling of Face Acts in Persuasion Oriented Discussions (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Politeness principles play a central role in shaping human interaction. |
| Approach: | They propose a generalized framework for modeling face acts in persuasion conversations using an annotated corpus and computational models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reveals differences in face act utilization between asymmetric roles in persuasion conversations and predicts key conversational outcome. |
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