Understanding the Semantics of Narratives of Interpersonal Violence through Reader Annotations and Physiological Reactions

Alexander Calderwood, Elizabeth A. Pruett, Raymond Ptucha, Christopher Homan, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm


Abstract
Interpersonal violence (IPV) is a prominent sociological problem that affects people of all demographic backgrounds. By analyzing how readers interpret, perceive, and react to experiences narrated in social media posts, we explore an understudied source for discourse about abuse. We asked readers to annotate Reddit posts about relationships with vs. without IPV for stakeholder roles and emotion, while measuring their galvanic skin response (GSR), pulse, and facial expression. We map annotations to coreference resolution output to obtain a labeled coreference chain for stakeholders in texts, and apply automated semantic role labeling for analyzing IPV discourse. Findings provide insights into how readers process roles and emotion in narratives. For example, abusers tend to be linked with violent actions and certain affect states. We train classifiers to predict stakeholder categories of coreference chains. We also find that subjects’ GSR noticeably changed for IPV texts, suggesting that co-collected measurement-based data about annotators can be used to support text annotation.
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W17-1801
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Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Eduardo Blanco, Roser Morante, Roser Saurí
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SemBEaR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–9
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-1801
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10.18653/v1/W17-1801
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Alexander Calderwood, Elizabeth A. Pruett, Raymond Ptucha, Christopher Homan, and Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm. 2017. Understanding the Semantics of Narratives of Interpersonal Violence through Reader Annotations and Physiological Reactions. In Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles, pages 1–9, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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