Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media
Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media
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10.18653/v1/2021.socialnlp-1.13
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2021-05
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MeiXing Dong;Xueming Xu;Yiwei Zhang;Ian Stewart;Rada Mihalcea
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作者：
MeiXing Dong;Xueming Xu;Yiwei Zhang;Ian Stewart;Rada Mihalcea
很多人都想改变，但不是每个人都能成功。虽然有许多社会心理学理论提出了那些坚持改变的人的动机相关特征，但很少有计算研究探索了个人改变的动机阶段。在本文中，我们研究了一个新的数据集，该数据集由表现出改变意图的人的作品组成，其中一些人坚持不懈，而另一些人则没有。使用多种语言分析技术，我们首先检查了区分这两类人的写作模式。执着的人倾向于引用更多与长期自我完善相关的话题，并使用更复杂的写作风格。利用这些一致的差异，我们建立了一个分类器，可以根据他们的语言可靠地识别出更有可能坚持下去的人。我们的实验为那些坚持改变意图的人的动机相关行为提供了新的见解。
Many people aim for change, but not everyone succeeds. While there are a number of social psychology theories that propose motivation-related characteristics of those who persist with change, few computational studies have explored the motivational stage of personal change. In this paper, we investigate a new dataset consisting of the writings of people who manifest intention to change, some of whom persist while others do not. Using a variety of linguistic analysis techniques, we first examine the writing patterns that distinguish the two groups of people. Persistent people tend to reference more topics related to long-term self-improvement and use a more complicated writing style. Drawing on these consistent differences, we build a classifier that can reliably identify the people more likely to persist, based on their language. Our experiments provide new insights into the motivation-related behavior of people who persist with their intention to change.