Affective, linguistic and topic patterns in online autism communities
Nguyen,T, Duong,T, Phung,D and Venkatesh,S 2014, Affective, linguistic and topic patterns in online autism communities. In Benatallah,B, Bestavros,A, Manolopoulos,Y, Vakali,A and Zhang,Y (ed), Web information systems engineering -- WISE 2014 : 15th International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12-14, 2014, proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp.474-488, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-11746-1_35.
Online communities offer a platform to support and discuss health issues. They provide a more accessible way to bring people of the same concerns or interests. This paper aims to study the characteristics of online autism communities (called Clinical) in comparison with other online communities (called Control) using data from 110 Live Journal weblog communities. Using machine learning techniques, we comprehensively analyze these online autism communities. We study three key aspects expressed in the blog posts made by members of the communities: sentiment, topics and language style. Sentiment analysis shows that the sentiment of the clinical group has lower valence, indicative of poorer moods than people in control. Topics and language styles are shown to be good predictors of autism posts. The result shows the potential of social media in medical studies for a broad range of purposes such as screening, monitoring and subsequently providing supports for online communities of individuals with special needs.
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