HappyDB: A Corpus of 100,000 Crowdsourced Happy Moments

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The science of happiness is an area of positive psychology concerned with understanding what behaviors make people happy in a sustainable fashion.

• Recently, there has been interest in developing technologies that help incorporate the findings of the science of happiness into users' daily lives by steering them towards behaviors that increase happiness.
• With the goal of building technology that can understand how people express their happy moments in text, we crowd-sourced HappyDB, a corpus of 100,000 happy moments that we make publicly available.
• This paper describes HappyDB and its properties, and outlines several important NLP problems that can be studied with the help of the corpus.