Hey all, a reminder that the livestream of our monthly research showcase will start in about 2 hours (11:30 PT / 18:30 UTC) with our collaborators from Jigsaw and Cornell as guest speakers. You can follow the stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vzI0k4OSg and join the live Q&A on IRC in the #wikimedia-research channel.
Looking forward to seeing you there! Dario On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:07 PM Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > we're hosting a dedicated session in June on our joint work with Cornell > and Jigsaw on predicting conversational failure > <https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05345> on Wikipedia talk pages. This is part > of our contribution to WMF's Anti-Harassment program. > > The showcase > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#June_2018> will be > live-streamed <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vzI0k4OSg> on *Monday, > June 18, 2018* at 11:30 AM (PDT), 18:30 (UTC). (Please note this falls > on a Monday this month). > > Conversations Gone Awry. Detecting Early Signs of Conversational FailureBy > *Justine Zhang and Jonathan Chang, Cornell University*One of the main > challenges online social systems face is the prevalence of antisocial > behavior, such as harassment and personal attacks. In this work, we > introduce the task of predicting from the very start of a conversation > whether it will get out of hand. As opposed to detecting undesirable > behavior after the fact, this task aims to enable early, actionable > prediction at a time when the conversation might still be salvaged. To this > end, we develop a framework for capturing pragmatic devices—such as > politeness strategies and rhetorical prompts—used to start a conversation, > and analyze their relation to its future trajectory. Applying this > framework in a controlled setting, we demonstrate the feasibility of > detecting early warning signs of antisocial behavior in online discussions. > > > Building a rich conversation corpus from Wikipedia Talk pagesWe present a > corpus of conversations that encompasses the complete history of > interactions between contributors to English Wikipedia's Talk Pages. This > captures a new view of these interactions by containing not only the final > form of each conversation but also detailed information on all the actions > that led to it: new comments, as well as modifications, deletions and > restorations. This level of detail supports new research questions > pertaining to the process (and challenges) of large-scale online > collaboration. As an example, we present a small study of removed comments > highlighting that contributors successfully take action on more toxic > behavior than was previously estimated. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vzI0k4OSg > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. > And, you can watch our past research showcases here > <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLQLgwU3oDFiGaU3K7pUVoW> > . > > Hope to see you there on June 18! > Dario > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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