Nonparametric discovery of online mental health-related communities
Dao, Bo, Nguyen, Thin, Venkatesh, Svetha and Phung, Dinh 2015, Nonparametric discovery of online mental health-related communities, in DSAA 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/DSAA.2015.7344859.
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Nonparametric discovery of online mental health-related communities
People are increasingly using social media, especially online communities, to discuss mental health issues and seek supports. Understanding topics, interaction, sentiment and clustering structures of these communities informs important aspects of mental health. It can potentially add knowledge to the underlying cognitive dynamics, mood swings patterns, shared interests, and interaction. There has been growing research interest in analyzing online mental health communities; however sentiment analysis of these communities has been largely under-explored. This study presents an analysis of online Live Journal communities with and without mental health-related conditions including depression and autism. Latent topics for mood tags, affective words, and generic words in the content of the posts made in these communities were learned using nonparametric topic modelling. These representations were then input into a nonparametric clustering to discover meta-groups among the communities. The best performance results can be achieved on clustering communities with latent mood-based representation for such communities. The study also found significant differences in usage latent topics for mood tags and affective features between online communities with and without affective disorders. The findings reveal useful insights into hyper-group detection of online mental health-related communities.
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