"You might think about slightly revising the title": identifying hedges in peer-tutoring interactions

Understand

Hedges play an important role in the management of conversational interaction.

• In peer tutoring, they are notably used by tutors in dyads (pairs of interlocutors) experiencing low rapport to tone down the impact of instructions and negative feedback.
• Pursuing the objective of building a tutoring agent that manages rapport with students in order to improve learning, we used a multimodal peer-tutoring dataset to construct a computational framework for identifying hedges.
• We compared approaches relying on pre-trained resources with others that integrate insights from the social science literature.