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Longitudinal Sentiment Topic Modelling of Reddit Posts

Social and Information Networks 2024-01-26 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

In this study, we analyze texts of Reddit posts written by students of four major Canadian universities. We gauge the emotional tone and uncover prevailing themes and discussions through longitudinal topic modeling of posts textual data. Our study focuses on four years, 2020-2023, covering COVID-19 pandemic and after pandemic years. Our results highlight a gradual uptick in discussions related to mental health.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13805,
  title  = {Longitudinal Sentiment Topic Modelling of Reddit Posts},
  author = {Fabian Nwaoha and Ziyad Gaffar and Ho Joon Chun and Marina Sokolova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13805},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

21 pages, 4 figures, 13 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2401.12382

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