Hedge
High-Level Intuition
Captures whether a speaker appears to “hedge” their statement and express lack of certainty.
Citation
Implementation Basics
The score is a binary representation of whether an utterance contains any hedges. A score of 1 is assigned if any hedge phrases (”I think,” “a little,” “maybe,” “possibly”) are present, and a score of 0 is assigned otherwise.
Implementation Notes/Caveats
This is a bag of words feature, which is a naive approach towards detecting hedges.
Interpreting the Feature
A score of 1 is assigned if hedge phrases (e.g., ”I think,” “a little,” “maybe,” “possibly”) are present, and a score of 0 is assigned otherwise.