Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models
SQ Tran, T Gangavarapu, N Chernogor… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
SQ Tran, T Gangavarapu, N Chernogor, JP Chang, C Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19470, 2025•arxiv.orgWe often rely on our intuition to anticipate the direction of a conversation. Endowing
automated systems with similar foresight can enable them to assist human-human
interactions. Recent work on developing models with this predictive capacity has focused on
the Conversations Gone Awry (CGA) task: forecasting whether an ongoing conversation will
derail. In this work, we revisit this task and introduce the first uniform evaluation framework,
creating a benchmark that enables direct and reliable comparisons between different …
automated systems with similar foresight can enable them to assist human-human
interactions. Recent work on developing models with this predictive capacity has focused on
the Conversations Gone Awry (CGA) task: forecasting whether an ongoing conversation will
derail. In this work, we revisit this task and introduce the first uniform evaluation framework,
creating a benchmark that enables direct and reliable comparisons between different …
We often rely on our intuition to anticipate the direction of a conversation. Endowing automated systems with similar foresight can enable them to assist human-human interactions. Recent work on developing models with this predictive capacity has focused on the Conversations Gone Awry (CGA) task: forecasting whether an ongoing conversation will derail. In this work, we revisit this task and introduce the first uniform evaluation framework, creating a benchmark that enables direct and reliable comparisons between different architectures. This allows us to present an up-to-date overview of the current progress in CGA models, in light of recent advancements in language modeling. Our framework also introduces a novel metric that captures a model's ability to revise its forecast as the conversation progresses.
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