Explainable Patterns for Distinction and Prediction of Moral Judgement on Reddit
This work addresses the need for explainable patterns in moral judgment analysis on social media, but it is incremental as it extends existing analysis with new data and classification tasks.
The authors tackled the problem of analyzing moral judgment on Reddit by building a new dataset of posts and comments from r/AmITheAsshole and identifying textual patterns linked to moral judgment, stance expression, and classifier decisions.
The forum r/AmITheAsshole in Reddit hosts discussion on moral issues based on concrete narratives presented by users. Existing analysis of the forum focuses on its comments, and does not make the underlying data publicly available. In this paper we build a new dataset of comments and also investigate the classification of the posts in the forum. Further, we identify textual patterns associated with the provocation of moral judgement by posts, with the expression of moral stance in comments, and with the decisions of trained classifiers of posts and comments.