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The Shape of Power: A Multilingual Framework for Social Power Reasoning in Dialogues

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

Social power plays a fundamental role in shaping human interaction, yet computational studies of power remain limited to narrow linguistic and cultural settings. Existing datasets further lack the demographic and relational depth needed for robust cross-cultural analysis. To address this gap, we introduce a theoretically grounded framework for studying social power in naturalistic multilingual dialogue through movie screenplays. The framework integrates a schema informed by social science theory, a native speaker annotation pipeline refined through pilot studies, and a custom interface for sca

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