If there's a Trigger Warning, then where's the Trigger? Investigating Trigger Warnings at the Passage Level
<|reference_start|>If there's a Trigger Warning, then where's the Trigger? Investigating Trigger Warnings at the Passage Level: Trigger warnings are labels that preface documents with sensitive content if this content could be perceived as harmful by certain groups of readers. Since warnings about a document intuitively need to be shown before reading it, authors usually assign trigger warnings at the document level. What parts of their writing prompted them to assign a warning, however, remains unclear. We investigate for the first time the feasibility of identifying the triggering passages of a document, both manually and computationally. We create a dataset of 4,135 English passages, each annotated with one of eight common trigger warnings. In a large-scale evaluation, we then systematically evaluate the effectiveness of fine-tuned and few-shot classifiers, and their generalizability. We find that trigger annotation belongs to the group of subjective annotation tasks in NLP, and that automatic trigger classification remains challenging but feasible.<|reference_end|>
@article{wiegmann2024if,
    title={If there's a Trigger Warning, then where's the Trigger? Investigating
  Trigger Warnings at the Passage Level},
    author={Matti Wiegmann and Jennifer Rakete and Magdalena Wolska and Benno
  Stein and Martin Potthast},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09615},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.09615},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.CY}
}