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. 2023 Jul 15;13(1):11441.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38171-0.

Machine learning-based guilt detection in text

Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque  1   2 , Nisar Hussain  1 , Grigori Sidorov  3 , Alexander Gelbukh  1
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Machine learning-based guilt detection in text

Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

We introduce a novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) task called guilt detection, which focuses on detecting guilt in text. We identify guilt as a complex and vital emotion that has not been previously studied in NLP, and we aim to provide a more fine-grained analysis of it. To address the lack of publicly available corpora for guilt detection, we created VIC, a dataset containing 4622 texts from three existing emotion detection datasets that we binarized into guilt and no-guilt classes. We experimented with traditional machine learning methods using bag-of-words and term frequency-inverse document frequency features, achieving a 72% f1 score with the highest-performing model. Our study provides a first step towards understanding guilt in text and opens the door for future research in this area.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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