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Alafate Abulimiti

1 accepted papers

2023

How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models?

ACL 2023long

Hedging is a strategy for softening the impact of a statement in conversation. In reducing the strength of an expression, it may help to avoid embarrassment (more technically, “face threat”) to one’s listener. For this reason, it is often found in contexts of instruction, such as tutoring. In this w…