  Inspiration moves a person to see new possibilities and transforms the way
they perceive their own potential. Inspiration has received little attention in
psychology, and has not been researched before in the NLP community. To the
best of our knowledge, this work is the first to study inspiration through
machine learning methods. We aim to automatically detect inspiring content from
social media data. To this end, we analyze social media posts to tease out what
makes a post inspiring and what topics are inspiring. We release a dataset of
5,800 inspiring and 5,800 non-inspiring English-language public post unique ids
collected from a dump of Reddit public posts made available by a third party
and use linguistic heuristics to automatically detect which social media
English-language posts are inspiring.
