Loneliness and Connection in Conversation: an NLP Dictionary
Conference Year
January 2022
Abstract
Loneliness has been a growing health concern and has been especially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is important to acknowledge within the context of palliative care and conversations with patients and their families. In an effort to quantify loneliness in conversation, this project sets out to build a dictionary of loneliness and connection keywords to analyze with Natural Language Processing. The dictionary will expand on prior research as an addition to their corpora.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Robert Gramling
Secondary Mentor Name
Bradford Demarest
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Second Student College
College of Arts and Sciences
Program/Major
Data Science
Second Program/Major
Biology
Primary Research Category
Health Sciences
Secondary Research Category
Social Sciences
Loneliness and Connection in Conversation: an NLP Dictionary
Loneliness has been a growing health concern and has been especially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is important to acknowledge within the context of palliative care and conversations with patients and their families. In an effort to quantify loneliness in conversation, this project sets out to build a dictionary of loneliness and connection keywords to analyze with Natural Language Processing. The dictionary will expand on prior research as an addition to their corpora.