Towards a Modeling Framework of Social Contexts, Roles and Relations for Acquiring Role-Specific Rules

Yuefei Sui,Cungen Cao,Zhenzhen Gu,Ya Wang

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00828-4_26

Abstract

Knowing the social roles of a person can help understand his or her interactions with the environment, and identification and acquisition of such social roles are very useful for a number of applications. In this paper, we propose a modeling framework of social contexts, roles and relations, and present a method of extracting role-specific rules from Web story episodes based on this framework. Then we introduce a rule expanding method which expands the seed rules of social roles. We believe that our work is useful for identifying social roles from text.

Highlights

A social role is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, expectations, and norms, as conceptualized by people in a social situation [1]
If the story episode contains a context-dependent relation universal, for example, “her boyfriend is operating on her grandmother”, we can conclude that her boyfriend takes on the relational role of Attending Physician and her grandmother takes on the relational role of Attended Patient
A role-specific rule represents an assertion of some roles in a social context

Summary

Introduction

A social role is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, expectations, and norms, as conceptualized by people in a social situation [1]. We introduce a modeling framework of social contexts, roles and relations, and within such a framework, we discuss methods for acquiring role-specific rules. There are a number of research works in the past decade, and they focus role identification in several situations We roughly divide such applications into four broad categories. [9] proposes a method for recognizing social roles from human event videos in a weakly supervised setting by using a Conditional Random Field (CRF) to model the inter-role interactions along with person specific unary features, such as gender and clothing. The third category of existing research works is social role identification in images. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work to identify social roles from the perspective of commonsense rules.

Modeling Social Contexts and Roles

Modeling Relations and Relational Roles

Acquiring Seed Role-specific Rules from Story Episodes

Expanding the Role-specific Seed Rules

Conclusion and Discussion