Multimodal conversation modelling for topic derailment detection
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Author(s)
Li, Z
Rei, M
Specia, L
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Conversations on social media tend to go off-topic and turn into different and sometimes toxic exchanges. Previous work focuses on analysing textual dialogues that have derailed into toxic content, but the range of derailment types is much broader, including spam or bot content, tangential comments, etc. In addition, existing work disregards conversations that involve visual information (i.e. images or videos), which are prevalent on most platforms. In this paper, we take a broader view of conversation derailment and propose a new challenge: detecting derailment based on the “change of conversation topic”, where the topic is defined by an initial post containing both a text and an image. For that, we (i) create the first Multimodal Conversation Derailment (MCD) dataset, and (ii) introduce a new multimodal conversational architecture (MMConv) that utilises visual and conversational contexts to classify comments for derailment. Experiments show that MMConv substantially outperforms previous text-based approaches to detect conversation derailment, as well as general multimodal classifiers. MMConv is also more robust to textual noise, since it relies on richer contextual information.
Date Issued
2022
Date Acceptance
2022-12-07
Citation
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022, pp.5144-5156
Publisher
ACL
Start Page
5144
End Page
5156
Journal / Book Title
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.376/
Source
Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2022-12-07
Finish Date
2022-12-11
Coverage Spatial
Abu Dhabi
Date Publish Online
2022