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What Motivates You? Benchmarking Automatic Detection of Basic Needs from Short Posts

Sanja Stajner, Seren Yenikent, Bilal Ghanem, Marc Franco-Salvador

Abstract

According to the self-determination theory, the levels of satisfaction of three basic needs (competence, autonomy and relatedness) have implications on people’s everyday life and career. We benchmark the novel task of automatically detecting those needs on short posts in English, by modelling it as a ternary classification task, and as three binary classification tasks. A detailed manual analysis shows that the latter has advantages in the real-world scenario, and that our best models achieve similar performances as a trained human annotator.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{stajner-etal-2021-motivates,
    title = "What Motivates You? Benchmarking Automatic Detection of Basic Needs from Short Posts",
    author = "Stajner, Sanja  and
      Yenikent, Seren  and
      Ghanem, Bilal  and
      Franco-Salvador, Marc",
    editor = "Zong, Chengqing  and
      Xia, Fei  and
      Li, Wenjie  and
      Navigli, Roberto",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.101/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.101",
    pages = "803--810"
}
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