Boffins use AI to make your writing more polite

Stefan Mileschin · 14th July 2020, 08:19

Apparently emails are too rude

Boffins at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a technique that's designed to automatically make written communication more polite.

Rather than merely scanning text for politeness, as past computational linguistics methods have, this one actually changes directives or requests that use either impolite or neutral language by restructuring them or adding words to make them more well-mannered. "Say that more politely", for instance, might become "Could you please say that more politely?"

Apparently politeness is not about using words or phrases such as "please" and "thank you" it means making language a bit less direct, so that instead of saying "you should do X", the sentence becomes something like "let us do X."

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/51165-b...ng-more-polite

14th July 2020, 08:19	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Boffins use AI to make your writing more polite Apparently emails are too rude Boffins at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a technique that's designed to automatically make written communication more polite. Rather than merely scanning text for politeness, as past computational linguistics methods have, this one actually changes directives or requests that use either impolite or neutral language by restructuring them or adding words to make them more well-mannered. "Say that more politely", for instance, might become "Could you please say that more politely?" Apparently politeness is not about using words or phrases such as "please" and "thank you" it means making language a bit less direct, so that instead of saying "you should do X", the sentence becomes something like "let us do X." https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/51165-b...ng-more-polite

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