A study on mental health discussion through Reddit
The massive growth of social media for the past few decades has given a new era to the open web. People are using social media to openly share opinions and also discussed sensitive subjects such as mental health. This paper study the online community on the Reddit discussion forum. We focused on stu...
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| author | Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin Beigi, Ghazaleh Liu, Huan |
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| description | The massive growth of social media for the past few decades has given a new era to the open web. People are using social media to openly share opinions and also discussed sensitive subjects such as mental health. This paper study the online community on the Reddit discussion forum. We focused on studying linguistic behavior in the online mental health community. We report linguistic analysis in order to understand the similarity and differences of each mental health community. We first study the sentiment per each Reddit community and followed by the topic modeling. By using the well-known Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method, we extract the most discussed topic for each community. By utilizing all related posts from each subreddits in each community, we establish the following exciting insights: (a) We observe that the headline of the post does not indicate the whole content of the discussion post, (b) we found that sentiment across the mental health community was high on positive compared to negative, and (c) topic distribution for each community varies but there exist similarities among them. |
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| spelling | ump-435762025-01-14T06:09:33Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/43576/ A study on mental health discussion through Reddit Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin Beigi, Ghazaleh Liu, Huan QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The massive growth of social media for the past few decades has given a new era to the open web. People are using social media to openly share opinions and also discussed sensitive subjects such as mental health. This paper study the online community on the Reddit discussion forum. We focused on studying linguistic behavior in the online mental health community. We report linguistic analysis in order to understand the similarity and differences of each mental health community. We first study the sentiment per each Reddit community and followed by the topic modeling. By using the well-known Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method, we extract the most discussed topic for each community. By utilizing all related posts from each subreddits in each community, we establish the following exciting insights: (a) We observe that the headline of the post does not indicate the whole content of the discussion post, (b) we found that sentiment across the mental health community was high on positive compared to negative, and (c) topic distribution for each community varies but there exist similarities among them. IEEE 2021 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/43576/1/A_Study_on_Mental_Health_Discussion_through_Reddit.pdf Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin and Beigi, Ghazaleh and Liu, Huan (2021) A study on mental health discussion through Reddit. In: Proceedings - 2021 International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems and 4th International Conference on Computational Science and Information Management, ICSECS-ICOCSIM 2021. 7th International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems and 4th International Conference on Computational Science and Information Management, ICSECS-ICOCSIM 2021 , 24-26 Aug. 2021 , Pekan, Malaysia. pp. 637-643.. (Published) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSECS52883.2021.00122 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin Beigi, Ghazaleh Liu, Huan A study on mental health discussion through Reddit |
| title | A study on mental health discussion through Reddit |
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| title_short | A study on mental health discussion through Reddit |
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| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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