If there's a Trigger Warning, then where's the Trigger? Investigating Trigger Warnings at the Passage Level

arXiv:2404.09615v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 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, …

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