Using of Natural Language Processing Techniques in Suicide Research

It is estimated that each year many people, most of whom are teenagers and young adults die by suicide worldwide. Suicide receives special attention with many countries developing national strategies for prevention. Since, more medical information is available in text, Preventing the growing trend of suicide in communities requires analyzing various textual resources, such as patient records, information on the web or questionnaires. For this purpose, this study systematically reviews recent studies related to the use of natural language processing techniques in the area of people’s health who have completed suicide or are at risk. After electronically searching for the PubMed and ScienceDirect databases and studying articles by two reviewers, 21 articles matched the inclusion criteria. This study revealed that, if a suitable data set is available, natural language processing techniques are well suited for various types of suicide related research

Cross-cultural mood perception in pop songs and its alignment with mood detection algorithms

Do people from different cultural backgrounds perceive the mood in music the same way? How closely do human ratings across different cultures approximate automatic mood detection algorithms that are often trained on corpora of predominantly Western popular music? Analyzing 166 participants responses from Brazil, South Korea, and the US, we examined the similarity between the ratings of nine categories of perceived moods in music and estimated their alignment with four popular mood detection algorithms. We created a dataset of 360 recent pop songs drawn from major music charts of the countries and constructed semantically identical mood descriptors across English, Korean, and Portuguese languages. Multiple participants from the three countries rated their familiarity, preference, and perceived moods for a given song. Ratings were highly similar within and across cultures for basic mood attributes such as sad, cheerful, and energetic. However, we found significant cross-cultural differences for more complex characteristics such as dreamy and love. To our surprise, the results of mood detection algorithms were uniformly correlated across human ratings from all three countries and did not show a detectable bias towards any particular culture. Our study thus suggests that the mood detection algorithms can be considered as an objective measure at least within the popular music context

Sentiment Polarity Classification of Comments on Korean News Articles Using Feature Reweighting

일반적으로 인터넷 신문 기사에 대한 댓글은 그 신문 기사에 대한 주관적인 감정이나 의견을 포함하고 있다. 따라서 이런 신문 기사의 댓글에 대한 감정을 인식하고 분류하는 데에는 그 신문 기사의 원문 내용이 중요한 영향을 미친다. 이런 점에 착안하여 본 논문은 기사의 원문 내용과 감정 사전을 이용하는 가중치 조정 방법을 제안하고, 제안된 가중치 조정 방법을 이용해서 한국어 신문 기사의 댓글에 대한 감정 이진 분류 방법을 제안한다. 가중치 조정 방법에는 다양한 자질 집합이 사용되는데 그것은 댓글에 포함된 감정 단어, 그리고 감정 사전과 뉴스 기사의 본문에 관련된 자질들, 마지막으로 뉴스 기사의 카테고리 정보가 포함되어 있다. 여기서 말하는 감정 사전은 한국어 감정 사전을 의미하며 아직 공개된 것이 없기 때문에, 기존에 있는 영어 감정 사전을 이용하여 구축하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 감정 이진 분류는 기계 학습을 이용한다. 일반적으로 기계 학습을 위해서는 학습 말뭉치가 필요한데 특별히 감정 분류 문제에서는 긍정 혹은 부정 감정 태그가 부착된 말뭉치가 필요하다. 이 말뭉치의 경우도, 공개된 한국어 감정 말뭉치가 아직 없기 때문에 말뭉치를 직접 구축하였다. 사용된 기계 학습 방법으로는 Na&iumlve Bayes, k-NN, SVM이 있고, 자질 선택 방법으로는 Document Frequency, χ^2 statistic, Information Gain이 있다. 그 결과, 댓글 안에 포함된 감정 단어와 그 댓글에 대한 기사 본문이 감정 분류에 매우 효과적인 자질임을 확인할 수 있었다.Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Related Works 4 2.1 Sentiment Classification 4 2.2 Feature Weighting in Vector Space Model 5 2.3 Feature Extraction and Selection 7 2.4 Classifiers 10 2.5 Accuracy Measures 14 Chapter 3 Feature Reweighting 16 3.1 Feature extraction in Korean 16 3.2 Feature Reweighting Methods 17 3.3 Examples of Feature Reweighting Methods 18 Chapter 4 Sentiment Polarity Classification System 21 4.1 Model Generation 21 4.2 Sentiment Polarity Classification 23 Chapter 5 Data Preparation 25 5.1 Korean Sentiment Corpus 25 5.2 Korean Sentiment Lexicon 27 Chapter 6 Experiments 29 6.1 Experimental Environment 29 6.2 Experimental Results 30 Chapter 7 Conclusions and Future Works 38 Bibliography 40 Acknowledgments 4

A Survey on Awesome Korean NLP Datasets

English based datasets are commonly available from Kaggle, GitHub, or recently published papers. Although benchmark tests with English datasets are sufficient to show off the performances of new models and methods, still a researcher need to train and validate the models on Korean based datasets to produce a technology or product, suitable for Korean processing. This paper introduces 15 popular Korean based NLP datasets with summarized details such as volume, license, repositories, and other research results inspired by the datasets. Also, I provide high-resolution instructions with sample or statistics of datasets. The main characteristics of datasets are presented on a single table to provide a rapid summarization of datasets for researchers.Comment: 11 pages, 1 horizontal page for large tabl