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title = "Estimation of Happiness Changes through Longitudinal Analysis of Employees{'} Texts",
author = "Hayashi, Junko and
Ito, Kazuhiro and
Manabe, Masae and
Watanabe, Yasushi and
Nakayama, Masataka and
Uchida, Yukiko and
Wakamiya, Shoko and
Aramaki, Eiji",
editor = "De Clercq, Orph{\'e}e and
Barriere, Valentin and
Barnes, Jeremy and
Klinger, Roman and
Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and
Tafreshi, Shabnam",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, {\&} Social Media Analysis",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.24",
pages = "294--304",
abstract = "Measuring happiness as a determinant of well-being is increasingly recognized as crucial. While previous studies have utilized free-text descriptions to estimate happiness on a broad scale, limited research has focused on tracking individual fluctuations in happiness over time owing to the challenges associated with longitudinal data collection. This study addresses this issue by obtaining longitudinal data from two workplaces over two and six months respectively.Subsequently, the data is used to construct a happiness estimation model and assess individual happiness levels.Evaluation of the model performance using correlation coefficients shows variability in the correlation values among individuals.Notably, the model performs satisfactorily in estimating 9 of the 11 users{'} happiness scores, with a correlation coefficient of 0.4 or higher. To investigate the factors affecting the model performance, we examine the relationship between the model performance and variables such as sentence length, lexical diversity, and personality traits. Correlations are observed between these features and model performance.",
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%T Estimation of Happiness Changes through Longitudinal Analysis of Employees’ Texts
%A Hayashi, Junko
%A Ito, Kazuhiro
%A Manabe, Masae
%A Watanabe, Yasushi
%A Nakayama, Masataka
%A Uchida, Yukiko
%A Wakamiya, Shoko
%A Aramaki, Eiji
%Y De Clercq, Orphée
%Y Barriere, Valentin
%Y Barnes, Jeremy
%Y Klinger, Roman
%Y Sedoc, João
%Y Tafreshi, Shabnam
%S Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F hayashi-etal-2024-estimation
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.24
%P 294-304
Markdown (Informal)
[Estimation of Happiness Changes through Longitudinal Analysis of Employees’ Texts](https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.24) (Hayashi et al., WASSA-WS 2024)
ACL
- Junko Hayashi, Kazuhiro Ito, Masae Manabe, Yasushi Watanabe, Masataka Nakayama, Yukiko Uchida, Shoko Wakamiya, and Eiji Aramaki. 2024. Estimation of Happiness Changes through Longitudinal Analysis of Employees’ Texts. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 294–304, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.