What makes an asshole character? What makes an asshole narrator?

This is the repository for our paper Author as Character and Narrator: Deconstructing Personal Narratives from the r/AmITheAsshole Reddit Community

Data

All data used in the paper is located in the data/ folder.

The file narrator_and_character_features.csv contains the following columns:

• message_id: unique identifier for the Reddit submission. This can be used to merge the features with the Reddit post text via the Reddit API.
• aitah_binary: binary outome 1 for "You're the asshole" and 0 for "You're NOT the asshole"

Author as Character features:

• character__op_age
• character__op_gender
• character__op_age_missing
• character__op_gender_missing
• character__other_character_age
• character__other_character_gender
• character__op_agency
• character__op_power
• character__sentiment_arc
• character__chain_of_events

Author as Narrator features:

• narrator__first_person_singular
• narrator__first_person_plural
• narrator__third_person_singular
• narrator__third_person_plural
• narrator__first_third_person_ratio
• narrator__positive_sent
• narrator__negative_sent
• narrator__emotions_anger
• narrator__emotions_anticipation
• narrator__emotions_disgust
• narrator__emotions_fear
• narrator__emotions_joy
• narrator__emotions_sadness
• narrator__emotions_surprise
• narrator__emotions_trust
• narrator__dominant_tone
• narrator__concreteness
• narrator__familiarity

Citation

Please cite the following paper if you use this data:

@article{giorgi2023author,
  title={Author as Character and Narrator: Deconstructing Personal Narratives from the r/AmITheAsshole Reddit Community},
  author={Giorgi, Salvatore and Zhao, Ke and Feng, Alexander H. and Martin, Lara J.},
  journal={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)},
  url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/22141},
  volume={17},
  number={1},
  pages={233-244},
  year={2023},
  month={6},
  address={Limassol, Cyprus},
  publisher={AAAI}
}