Confessional Statement
A Confessional Statement is a statement that acknowledging some fact that the agent would prefer to keep hidden.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Written Confession to being a Spoken Confession.
- It can range from being a Personal Confession to being a Group Confession.
- It can range from being a Voluntary Confession to being an Involuntary Confession (such as a forced confession).
- Example(s):
- a Legal Confession.
- a Confession of Guilt.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Confession (Law), Confession (Religion), Love, Ritual, Sin.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/confession Retrieved:2021-12-20.
- A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of persons – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that he believes the other party is not already aware of,[1] and is frequently associated with an admission of a moral or legal wrong:
Not all confessions reveal wrongdoing, however. For example, a confession of love is often considered positive both by the confessor and by the recipient of the confession and is a common theme in literature. [2] [3] With respect to confessions of wrongdoing, there are several specific kinds of confessions that have significance beyond the social. A legal confession involves an admission of some wrongdoing that has a legal consequence, while the concept of confession in religion varies widely across various belief systems, and is usually more akin to a ritual by which the person acknowledges thoughts or actions considered sinful or morally wrong within the confines of the confessor's religion. In some religions, confession takes the form of an oral communication to another person. Socially, however, the term may refer to admissions that are neither legally nor religiously significant.
- A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of persons – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that he believes the other party is not already aware of,[1] and is frequently associated with an admission of a moral or legal wrong:
- ↑ Roger W. Shuy, The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception (1998), p. 2–10.
- ↑ Giulio Marra, Shakespeare and this "imperfect" World: Dramatic Form and the Nature of Knowing (1997), p. 69, describing "the distinction between "to do" and "to confess", between having thoughts of love and confessing one's love, between the indetermination of a feeling and its final definition", as a theme that "creeps into the various stories".
- ↑ Charles Emil Kany, The Beginnings of the Epistolary Novel in France, Italy and Spain (1937), Volume 21, Issues 1-6, p. 19.
2011
- (Socher et al., 2011) ⇒ Richard Socher, Jeffrey Pennington, Eric H. Huang, Andrew Y. Ng, and Christopher D. Manning. (2011). “Semi-supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions.” In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. ISBN:978-1-937284-11-4
- QUOTE: The dataset consists of very personal confessions anonymously made by people on the experience project website www.experienceproject.com. Confessions are labeled with a set of five reactions by other users. Reaction labels are you rock (expressing approvement), tehee (amusement), I understand, Sorry, hugs and Wow, just wow (displaying shock). For evaluation on this dataset we predict both the label with the most votes as well as the full distribution over the sentiment categories. On both tasks our model outperforms [[competitive baselines. A set of over 31,000 confessions as well as the code of our model are available at www.socher.org.