Wait! There's a Way Out: A Decision Mechanism for Forecasting Conversational Derailment

ArXi:2605.29243v1 Announce Type: cross Forecasting conversational derailment is the task of predicting, as the conversation unfolds, whether it will eventually derail into personal attacks. Since forecasting models operate in an online fashion, they must decide whether to "trigger" an alert after each utterance--for example, to notify participants or a moderator that the conversation is at risk of derailing.