How does this work? What did you use as training data? Do you parse the sentence in any way?
For example, "Hey! It was so so great to see you." gets a 46/100, and 'so' is listed as an impolite word, which is understandable in some contexts but not this one.
Good job first of all.. So out of fun, I typed in "the dudes and dudettes were here" to test your system. The neutral responses as rewrites were a bit worrying. You may want to look into it. Congrats on it.
EDIT: @Mikkiq, thank you for taking those words out promptly and correcting it. Cool site.
Agreed, it's nicely put together. I think this could grow into a handy tool, like an advanced thesaurus of sorts.
Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down.
I do find these things quite fun; I put in "You are a sexy beast" and got "You are a hot dog" as neutral, "You are a beautiful dog" as neutral but "You are a beautiful horse" would be pushing it and impolite; though "You are a glamorous horse" (or hot) is neutral.
Giving it a go with some Donald Trump twitter text, the suggestion was "President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight" is impolite; a suggested change that would be more polite was "President obama was incredible on@60minutes last night.". I noticed with that it looped through the same words a few times - in some cases labelling the same phrase as both neutral and polite.
This actually seems pretty profound. Semantically, in some contexts, those words could be used interchangeably. It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child!
>It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child!
Thats correct. I further used the the suggested rewrites and it came back with some wild suggestions. It is hard to get $100%.
Ahh, guilty. Sorry about polluting your dataset! My first reaction to seeing this tool was "Ohh, I wonder what it thinks about cursewords". I can't imagine that is a rare thought.
Wow, this is excellent, congrats on the release. Are you planning on adding the ability for people to feed in suggestions/feedback or is that too prone to abuse? Great seeing more cool NLP technology out there!
This was really fun to play around with. its funny how changing a word in one scenario will make you more polite, while in another it'll become the least polite thing ever.
I find that more and more of these sort of "Write more politely" things are propping up. Inherently they come off as either too distant or too unsure of oneself by throwing a bunch of non-assertive statements ("hedge statements") or speaking in a way nobody would actually speak. Combined with training sets always being incomplete and human nuance being something extremely difficult to teach, it always returns to "use your best judgement".
I feel like maybe I just "don't get it". At least I can have fun playing a game of "how rude can I be while still getting a polite score".
>I think your mother would have had a better life if she had swallowed you."
How to come across as a dickless pushover for dummies.
Seriously though I think it's bad to encourage people to pepper their comments with such trite. I would rather read a brief, sincere message than a longwinded weak one.
Disagreeing with the 'politeness' assessment of some of these words... type in 'Howdy' and the only "polite" words are "Welcome" and "Goodbye".
More troubling to me is that this feels more like one person trying to impose their definition of "polite" onto others, and many of the suggestions seem result in speech that is weak, weasel-y, or lacking a feeling of weight.
It suggested I upgrade the curse in "Yo, fix the goddamn server already" to motherfucking (as it's only merely contentious.) I don't think it does what it promises! Fun idea, though.
"Good afternoon, I'm very happy that you've sent a solution to our very good enigma we've published last week, our review team analyzed it and they would like you to stop contacting us with your miscellany of formulas, so thanks a lot for your interest but please understand we'll call the police if you backslide.:-)"
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 103 ms ] threadHow does this work? What did you use as training data? Do you parse the sentence in any way?
For example, "Hey! It was so so great to see you." gets a 46/100, and 'so' is listed as an impolite word, which is understandable in some contexts but not this one.
Catching all the different senses of the word is a hard problem. There's always something to improve.
EDIT: @Mikkiq, thank you for taking those words out promptly and correcting it. Cool site.
Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down.
I do find these things quite fun; I put in "You are a sexy beast" and got "You are a hot dog" as neutral, "You are a beautiful dog" as neutral but "You are a beautiful horse" would be pushing it and impolite; though "You are a glamorous horse" (or hot) is neutral.
Giving it a go with some Donald Trump twitter text, the suggestion was "President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight" is impolite; a suggested change that would be more polite was "President obama was incredible on@60minutes last night.". I noticed with that it looped through the same words a few times - in some cases labelling the same phrase as both neutral and polite.
The suggested rewrite for "the dudes and dudettes were here" and gave it a 60/100 and a neutral response was
"The N(hint: for black) and fellas were here". All in all, this is a neat site for when I am angry and need to be polite with words.
I like the responses you got though. I can see myself using you are a glamorous horse:)
Thats correct. I further used the the suggested rewrites and it came back with some wild suggestions. It is hard to get $100%.
Please don't repeat the username you're replying to. HN's threaded comments make that redundant.
Apparently "Pardon my intrusion but may I enquire as to your state of health."
Is neutral and should be replaced by
"Pardon my ingress but may I question as to your government sources of medical treatment."
Which I guess is also more in tune with American politics. Truly is has achieved singularity.
But, I did find it handled typical sentences very well. Good job.
Impolite:
"You are wonderful."
"I really love it."
"Your work has really inspired me."
"Why do I love what you're doing? Because of the following reasons."
Polite:
"Again, please show me your failure, which I love to see."
Ok. I'm out of time. :)
I feel like maybe I just "don't get it". At least I can have fun playing a game of "how rude can I be while still getting a polite score".
>I think your mother would have had a better life if she had swallowed you."
Polite: 77/100
Polite Would you know if s'up?
Polite May I ask if s'up?
Polite May I know if s'up?
Polite I was wondering if s'up?
Polite Could you say if s'up?
Polite Could I know if s'up?
Polite I was thinking if s'up?
Polite Could I ask if s'up?
Seriously though I think it's bad to encourage people to pepper their comments with such trite. I would rather read a brief, sincere message than a longwinded weak one.
Took a while, but along with a coworker, we were able to get 100.
Same here, but I was going for 0.
More troubling to me is that this feels more like one person trying to impose their definition of "polite" onto others, and many of the suggestions seem result in speech that is weak, weasel-y, or lacking a feeling of weight.
Keegan: "I've been trying to reach out to you all day, are we on for tonight?" Polite (71 / 100)
Jordan: "Sorry dude, missed your texts. I assumed we'd meet at the bar. Whatever, I don't care." Polite (71 / 100)
Keegan: "Do you even want to hang out?" Impolite (30 / 100)
Jordan: "Like I said, whatever." Neutral (47 / 100)
Keegan: "Jesus, you are fucking priceless" Impolite (30 / 100)
Jordan: "You're the one who's fucking priceless!" Impolite (6 / 100)
Keegan: "You wanna go right now?" Impolite (31 / 100)
Jordan: "Ok let's go" Polite (76 / 100)[2]
Keegan: "You wanna really do this now?" Impolite (13 / 100)
Jordan: "Fuck yeah, let's do it" Impolite (19 / 100)
Jordan: "First round's mine" Neutral (43 / 100)
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo
[2]: Adding a "." to the end of the "Ok let's go" drops it by three points to 73 / 100
94/100
95/100
97/100
"I am sorry but the statement you have made is incorrect and I would like to offer a correction."
99/100
Hi, I would discuss the impressive contrast between these thoughts and the facts of reality with you, please; thanks! :)
100/100
98/100
98/100
http://i.imgur.com/GxKOMuw.png
Edit: "We would like to express our sincerest thanks to all the best, most amazing cocksuckers that created this tone checker! :) " [96 /100]
"Hi, we thanks for the happy! Thank you for love! :-)"
100/100
If you enter vulgarities and offensive language, the suggestions seem to be just as bad.
""this is a fucking stupid task and idiotic in it's delivery.""
edit: it's a really cool tool, actually has helped me to make polite to uber polite.
Suck my dick, Thank you. Contentious....ha! The gender based norms are strong with this one.