This is an amazing research project from Professor Keith.
Team members: Haripriya Dharmala, Nai-Cih Liou, Raveena Kshatriya, Sakshi Goel, Yuchen Zhang
Dealing with tensorflow gpu can be a little bit tricky, so I included system information, apt packages installation information, and python packages information.
- “Nearly-human” creatures persist in stories across cultures
- Why are creepy stories filled with almost-human ghosts, zombies, and cryptids?
- Do popular stories reach a creepy “sweet spot” in which creatures or scenarios are nearly-normal but not quite?
- Goal: help answer what makes text creepy
- Learn and apply skills of natural language processing
- Learn what to avoid for AI design and human-computer interaction
- Understand the psychology of humans: why are creatures or scenarios scary?
Data from subreddits:
- r/NoSleep
- r/Confessions
- r/Confession
- ...
- 11 GB of data
- 9 Subreddits
- Over 10 years of data
- Mostly English & one small Spanish subreddit
- Comments & Posts (authors, text, score, ...)
- Creepy subreddits:
- NoSleep, CreepyPasta, Miedo...
- Normal text subreddits:
- Confessions, confession (two different sites!), TIFU,...
Weekly outline can be seen in the projects tab.