Identifying Empathetic Messages in Online Health Communities

Hamed Khanpour, Cornelia Caragea, Prakhar Biyani


Abstract
Empathy captures one’s ability to correlate with and understand others’ emotional states and experiences. Messages with empathetic content are considered as one of the main advantages for joining online health communities due to their potential to improve people’s moods. Unfortunately, to this date, no computational studies exist that automatically identify empathetic messages in online health communities. We propose a combination of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks, and show that the proposed model outperforms each individual model (CNN and LSTM) as well as several baselines.
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I17-2042
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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246–251
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Hamed Khanpour, Cornelia Caragea, and Prakhar Biyani. 2017. Identifying Empathetic Messages in Online Health Communities. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 246–251, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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