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Does Social Support (Expressed in Post Titles) Elicit Comments in Online Substance Use Recovery Forums?
Individuals recovering from substance use often seek social support (emotional and informational) on online recovery forums, where they can both write and comment on posts, expressing their struggles and successes.
Understanding Weekly COVID-19 Concerns through Dynamic Content-Specific LDA Topic Modeling
The novelty and global scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to rapid societal changes in a short span of time.
Understanding Social Support Expressed in a COVID-19 Online Forum
We find that (i) there is a positive correlation between the informational support given in posts and the emotional support given and emotional support sought, respectively, in these posts and (ii) over time, users tended to seek more emotional support and give less emotional support.
Explaining the Trump Gap in Social Distancing Using COVID Discourse
Our ability to limit the future spread of COVID-19 will in part depend on our understanding of the psychological and sociological processes that lead people to follow or reject coronavirus health behaviors.
Did that happen? Predicting Social Media Posts that are Indicative of what happened in a scene: A case study of a TV show
While popular Television (TV) shows are airing, some users interested in these shows publish social media posts about the show.
WWBP-SQT-lite: Multi-level Models and Difference Embeddings for Moments of Change Identification in Mental Health Forums
Psychological states unfold dynamically; to understand and measure mental health at scale we need to detect and measure these changes from sequences of online posts.
Language-based Valence and Arousal Expressions between the United States and China: a Cross-Cultural Examination
There are substantial differences among cultures that contribute to their affective expressions.
An Integrative Survey on Mental Health Conversational Agents to Bridge Computer Science and Medical Perspectives
Mental health conversational agents (a. k. a.
Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization
We used natural language processing to analyze a billion words to study cultural differences on Weibo, one of China's largest social media platforms.
Multilingual Language Models are not Multicultural: A Case Study in Emotion
Emotions are experienced and expressed differently across the world.
Generative Adversarial Networks based Skin Lesion Segmentation
Skin cancer is a serious condition that requires accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Detecting Histologic & Clinical Glioblastoma Patterns of Prognostic Relevance
Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive malignant adult tumor of the central nervous system, with a grim prognosis and heterogeneous morphologic and molecular profiles.
A Weakly-Supervised Iterative Graph-Based Approach to Retrieve COVID-19 Misinformation Topics
We aim to reduce the resource cost of this process by introducing a weakly-supervised iterative graph-based approach to detect keywords, topics, and themes related to misinformation, with a focus on COVID-19.
Different Affordances on Facebook and SMS Text Messaging Do Not Impede Generalization of Language-Based Predictive Models
Adaptive mobile device-based health interventions often use machine learning models trained on non-mobile device data, such as social media text, due to the difficulty and high expense of collecting large text message (SMS) data.
Social Media Reveals Urban-Rural Differences in Stress across China
This paper studies linguistic differences in the experiences and expressions of stress in urban-rural China from Weibo posts from over 65, 000 users across 329 counties using hierarchical mixed-effects models.
Detecting COVID-19 and Community Acquired Pneumonia using Chest CT scan images with Deep Learning
We propose a two-stage Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based classification framework for detecting COVID-19 and Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) using the chest Computed Tomography (CT) scan images.
Twitter Corpus of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement And Counter Protests: 2013 to 2021
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized social movement protesting violence against Black individuals and communities, with a focus on police brutality.
Studying Politeness across Cultures Using English Twitter and Mandarin Weibo
We study the linguistic features associated with politeness across US English and Mandarin Chinese.
Social and Information Networks Computers and Society
Studying Cultural Differences in Emoji Usage across the East and the West
Global acceptance of Emojis suggests a cross-cultural, normative use of Emojis.
Understanding and Measuring Psychological Stress using Social Media
In this paper, we explore the language of psychological stress with a dataset of 601 social media users, who answered the Perceived Stress Scale questionnaire and also consented to share their Facebook and Twitter data.
