.. _hedge: Hedge ============ High-Level Intuition ********************* Captures whether a speaker appears to “hedge” their statement and express lack of certainty. Citation ********* `Ranganath, et al. (2013) `_ 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. Related Features ***************** Please see :ref:`politeness_strategies`, which also contains a measure for hedging.