Garg, Muskan
Saxena, Chandni
Samanta, Debabrata
Dorr, Bonnie J.
Chapter History
First Online: 14 June 2023
Ethical Considerations and Broader Impact
: We emphasize that the sensitive nature of our work necessitates that we use publicly available Reddit posts in a purely observational manner. This research intends to improve public health surveillance and other health applications that automatically identify lonesomeness on Reddit. To adhere to privacy constraints, we do not disclose any personal information such as demographics, location, and personal details of social media user while making <scp>LonXplain</scp> publicly available []. The annotations scheme is carried out under the observation of a senior clinical psychologist, a rehabilitation counselor, and a social NLP expert. This research is purely observational and we do not claim any solution for clinical diagnosis at this stage []. Reddit posts might subject to biased demographics such as race, location and gender of a user. Therefore, we do not claim <i>diversity</i> in our dataset. Our dataset is susceptible to the prejudices and biases of our student annotators. There will be no ethical issues or legal impact with our dataset and is subject to IRB approval.
Conference Information
Conference Acronym: NLDB
Conference Name: International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Conference City: Derby
Conference Country: United Kingdom
Conference Year: 2023
Conference Start Date: 21 June 2023
Conference End Date: 23 June 2023
Conference Number: 28
Conference ID: nldb2023
Conference URL: https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/nldb-2023/
Peer Review Information (provided by the conference organizers)
Type: Single-blind
Conference Management System: Easy Chair
Number of Submissions Sent for Review: 89
Number of Full Papers Accepted: 31
Number of Short Papers Accepted: 14
Acceptance Rate of Full Papers: 35% - The value is computed by the equation "Number of Full Papers Accepted / Number of Submissions Sent for Review * 100" and then rounded to a whole number.
Average Number of Reviews per Paper: 3
Average Number of Papers per Reviewer: 3
External Reviewers Involved: No