[Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure - to be published in Association for Computational Linguistics](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05345)
"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 sal…