Understanding Mental Health Issues in Different Subdomains of Social Networking Services: Computational Analysis of Text-Based Reddit Posts
Seoyun Kim, Junyeop Cha, Dongjae Kim, Eunil Park · 2023
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Description
Seoyun Kim and co-authors study, in a 2023 paper, how people write about mental health on Reddit. Each illness has its own forum, or subreddit, for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and more. Users post there to share feelings and ask for advice. The team asks whether the language of each forum is distinct enough to tell them apart, and whether a machine can learn those gaps.
They gathered more than three million posts and tested the words with language analysis software. Posts from each illness forum did differ in tone and word choice, and the gaps held up against forums with no health focus. Machine learning and clustering methods could also sort the posts by forum. The work may help future tools spot what kind of support a poster needs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Seoyun Kim, Junyeop Cha, Dongjae Kim, Eunil Park |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |