Wait! There's a Way Out: A Decision Mechanism for Forecasting Conversational Derailment
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 "trigger" an alert after each utterance--for example, to notify participants or a moderator that the conversation is at risk of derailing. Existing approaches make this decision solely based on the estimated likelihood of derailment given the preceding utterances, implicitly assuming that the conversation's future trajectory is fixed. As a result, they ignore the possibility of future recovery and incur an unnecessarily high rate of false positives. In this w...
| Authors | Laerdon Kim, Vivian Nguyen, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 28 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 May 2026 |
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