In your wildest dreams: the language and psychological features of dreams

Kate Niederhoffer, Jonathan Schler, Patrick Crutchley, Kate Loveys, Glen Coppersmith


Abstract
In this paper, we provide the first quantified exploration of the structure of the language of dreams, their linguistic style and emotional content. We present a collection of digital dream logs as a viable corpus for the growing study of mental health through the lens of language, complementary to the work done examining more traditional social media. This paper is largely exploratory in nature to lay the groundwork for subsequent research in mental health, rather than optimizing a particular text classification task.
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W17-3102
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology — From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality
Month:
August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, BC
Editors:
Kristy Hollingshead, Molly E. Ireland, Kate Loveys
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CLPsych
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
13–25
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-3102
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3102
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Kate Niederhoffer, Jonathan Schler, Patrick Crutchley, Kate Loveys, and Glen Coppersmith. 2017. In your wildest dreams: the language and psychological features of dreams. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology — From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, pages 13–25, Vancouver, BC. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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In your wildest dreams: the language and psychological features of dreams (Niederhoffer et al., CLPsych 2017)
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