Overview
MSc NLP Research Project
Detecting Loneliness Self-Disclosure
in Reddit Posts
An empirical evaluation of text representations and classification models using the FIG-Loneliness dataset — 5,633 annotated Reddit posts from r/loneliness, r/lonely, r/youngadults, and r/college (2018–2020).
Pipeline Status
Research Questions
RQ1Linguistic Characteristics
What linguistic and structural characteristics differentiate lonely vs non-lonely Reddit posts?
RQ2Baseline Performance
How well can baseline structural text classification models detect loneliness self-disclosure?
RQ3Representation Impact
How do different text representations affect predictive performance for loneliness detection?
RQ4Performance vs Interpretability
What trade-offs exist between predictive performance and interpretability across representations?
Dataset Splits
FIG-Loneliness · Reddit · 2018–2020 · CC BY-NC 4.0