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18 2018 12:45 - 14:00
Meeting room 4-E4-SR03, Via Roentgen 1

Towards an artificial intuition: Conversational markers of (anti)social dynamics


Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University


ABSTRACT

Can conversational dynamics---the nature of the back and forth between people---predict outcomes of social interactions?  This talk will describe efforts on developing an artificial intuition about ongoing conversations, by modeling the subtle pragmatic and rhetorical choices of the participants.

The resulting framework reveals that emerging conversational patterns can point to the nature of the social relation between interlocutors, as well as predict the future trajectory of this relation.  For example, I will discuss how in the context of long-lasting friendships, temporal interactional dynamics can foretell upcoming betrayal. Then I will show how this framework can be used to detect warning signs of impending antisocial behavior, signaling whether a conversation will stay on track or derail into personal attacks.  

This talk includes joint work with Jonathan Cheng, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Lucas Dixon, Liye Fu, Yiqing Hua, Dan Jurafsky,  Srijan Kumar, Lillian Lee, Jure Leskovec, Vlad Niculae, Chris Potts, Arthur Spirling, Dario Taraborelli, Nithum Thain and Justine Zhang.