On the Way to Gentle AI Counselor: Politeness Cause Elicitation and Intensity Tagging in Code-mixed Hinglish Conversations for Social Good

Priyanshu Priya, Gopendra Singh, Mauajama Firdaus, Jyotsna Agrawal, Asif Ekbal


Abstract
Politeness is a multifaceted concept influenced by individual perceptions of what is considered polite or impolite. With this objective, we introduce a novel task - Politeness Cause Elicitation and Intensity Tagging (PCEIT). This task focuses on conversations and aims to identify the underlying reasons behind the use of politeness and gauge the degree of politeness conveyed. To address this objective, we create HING-POEM, a new conversational dataset in Hinglish (a blend of Hindi and English) for mental health and legal counseling of crime victims. The rationale for the domain selection lies in the paramount importance of politeness in mental health and legal counseling of crime victims to ensure a compassionate and cordial atmosphere for them. We enrich the HING-POEM dataset by annotating it with politeness labels, politeness causal spans, and intensity values at the level of individual utterances. In the context of the introduced PCEIT task, we present PAANTH (Politeness CAuse ElicitAion and INtensity Tagging in Hinglish), a comprehensive framework based on Contextual Enhanced Attentive Convolution Transformer. We conduct extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations to establish the effectiveness of our proposed approach using the newly constructed dataset. Our approach is compared against state-of-the-art baselines, and these analyses help demonstrate the superiority of our method.
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2024.findings-naacl.290
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, Steven Bethard
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4678–4696
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-naacl.290
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10.18653/v1/2024.findings-naacl.290
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Priyanshu Priya, Gopendra Singh, Mauajama Firdaus, Jyotsna Agrawal, and Asif Ekbal. 2024. On the Way to Gentle AI Counselor: Politeness Cause Elicitation and Intensity Tagging in Code-mixed Hinglish Conversations for Social Good. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, pages 4678–4696, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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