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

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

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology - From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2017 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017
EditorsKristy Hollingshead, Molly E. Ireland, Kate Loveys
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages13-25
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626678
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology - From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2017 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 3 Aug 2017 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology - From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2017 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period3/08/17 → …

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