TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis of Anxious Word Usage on Online Health Forums
AU - Rey-Villamizar, Nicolas
AU - Shrestha, Prasha
AU - Sadeque, Farig
AU - Bethard, Steven
AU - Pedersen, Ted
AU - Mukherjee, Arjun
AU - Solorio, Thamar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Online health communities and support groups are a valuable source of information for users suffering from a physical or mental illness. Users turn to these forums for moral support or advice on specific conditions, symptoms, or side effects of medications. This paper describes and studies the linguistic patterns of a community of support forum users over time focused on the used of anxious related words. We introduce a methodology to identify groups of individuals exhibiting linguistic patterns associated with anxiety and the correlations between this linguistic pattern and other word usage. We find some evidence that participation in these groups does yield positive effects on their users by reducing the frequency of anxious related word used over time.
AB - Online health communities and support groups are a valuable source of information for users suffering from a physical or mental illness. Users turn to these forums for moral support or advice on specific conditions, symptoms, or side effects of medications. This paper describes and studies the linguistic patterns of a community of support forum users over time focused on the used of anxious related words. We introduce a methodology to identify groups of individuals exhibiting linguistic patterns associated with anxiety and the correlations between this linguistic pattern and other word usage. We find some evidence that participation in these groups does yield positive effects on their users by reducing the frequency of anxious related word used over time.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099109108
T3 - EMNLP 2016 - 7th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2016 - Proceedings of the Workshop
SP - 37
EP - 42
BT - EMNLP 2016 - 7th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2016 - Proceedings of the Workshop
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - EMNLP 2016 7th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2016
Y2 - 5 November 2016
ER -