Condolence and Empathy in Online Communities

Github repository for EMNLP 2020 paper Condolence and Empathy in Online Communities by Naitian Zhou and David Jurgens.

Data

Due to the sensitive nature of this data, it will be made available upon request to researchers.

Code

Pre-trained models

If you would like to use our pretrained models, you can install with pip with

pip install condolence-models

See the Github repository or the PyPi listing for more details and documentation.

Analysis

Notebooks for analysis on the final Reddit 2018 dataset are in the analysis folder. Notebooks are named by the order in which they are to be run. You can also view notebook dependencies at the top of each notebook.

Some requisite auxiliary data has also been included (namely, Reddit 2018 daily volume).

Crawling

Code for crawling through Reddit to heuristically label condolence and distress are located in the crawling directory. The directory also includes the labeling script used to get the final Reddit 2018 dataset used for analysis (grab_comments.py).

Note: this code might be messy. Peruse at your own risk.

Models

Notebooks and code for training models are in the models directory. This code might be messy. Peruse at your own risk.

Contact

Naitian Zhou ([email protected])