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Personal attacks are a form of abuse detected by Tisane. Every instance is logged as an instance of abuse (see How to detect abuse? for information how to work with the abuse detection) with the type personal_attack. Personal attacks also cover cyberbullying.

Note that a personal attack is:

• an attack on a person who is a party to the conversation; addressing in second person (“you”) clearly means it’s the case but in order to recognize nicknames and other participants, a list of participants must be submitted. By default, we only detect attacks on discussion participants.
• not an attack on a fictional character or a public figure or a person not participating in a conversation. E.g. “I hate her” is not a personal attack.

Is it possible to change the default policy and detect an attack on any named 3rd person as well? Yes. In order to accomplish that, we need to redefine all animate 3rd person nouns as discussion participants.

Example:

{"language":"en", "content":"John Smith sucks",
"settings":{"memory":{"assign":[{"if":{"features":[{"index":1,"value":"NOUN"},{"index":9,"value":"3"},{"index":22,"value":"PERS"}]},"then":{"features":[{"index":33,"value":"DIPA"}],"hypernym":123887}}]}}}