NormMark: A Weakly Supervised Markov Model for Socio-cultural Norm Discovery (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for norm recognition focus only on surface-level features of dialogues and do not take into account the interactions within a conversation. |
| Approach: | They propose a probabilistic generative Markov model to carry latent features throughout a dialogue and trainable on weakly annotated data using the variational technique. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on a weakly annotated dataset, outperforming existing methods, including GPT3. |
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