Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014 |
Subtitle of host publication | 15th International Conference Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12-14, 2014 Proceedings, Part II |
Editors | Boualem Benatallah, Azer Bestavros, Yannis Manolopoulos, Athena Vakali, Yanchun Zhang |
Place of Publication | Cham Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 474-488 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319117461 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319117454 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2014 - Thessaloniki , Greece Duration: 12 Oct 2014 → 14 Oct 2014 Conference number: 15th http://delab.csd.auth.gr/wise2014/ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-11749-2 (Proceedings) |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Volume | 8787 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | WISE 2014 |
Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Thessaloniki |
Period | 12/10/14 → 14/10/14 |
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Keywords
- Affective computing
- Mental health
- Web mining
- Weblog