{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/help-need-advice-on-identifying-advice","title":"Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice","arxiv_id":"2010.02494","date":"2020-10-06","proceeding":"EMNLP 2020 11","authors":["Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan","Benjamin T Chen","Rebecca Warholic","Katrin Erk","Junyi Jessy Li"],"abstract":"Humans use language to accomplish a wide variety of tasks - asking for and giving advice being one of them. In online advice forums, advice is mixed in with non-advice, like emotional support, and is sometimes stated explicitly, sometimes implicitly. Understanding the language of advice would equip systems with a better grasp of language pragmatics; practically, the ability to identify advice would drastically increase the efficiency of advice-seeking online, as well as advice-giving in natural language generation systems. We present a dataset in English from two Reddit advice forums - r/AskParents and r/needadvice - annotated for whether sentences in posts contain advice or not. Our analysis reveals rich linguistic phenomena in advice discourse. We present preliminary models showing that while pre-trained language models are able to capture advice better than rule-based systems, advice identification is challenging, and we identify directions for future research. Comments: To be presented at EMNLP 2020.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02494v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.02494v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"help-need-advice-on-identifying-advice","repo_url":"https://github.com/venkatasg/Advice-EMNLP2020","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"text-generation","task_name":"Text Generation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"askparents","name":"AskParents","full_name":null},{"slug":"needadvice","name":"needadvice","full_name":null}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2010.02494","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}