Embedding Mental Health Discourse for Community Recommendation

Hy Dang, Bang Nguyen, Noah Ziems, Meng Jiang


Abstract
Our paper investigates the use of discourse embedding techniques to develop a community recommendation system that focuses on mental health support groups on social media. Social media platforms provide a means for users to anonymously connect with communities that cater to their specific interests. However, with the vast number of online communities available, users may face difficulties in identifying relevant groups to address their mental health concerns. To address this challenge, we explore the integration of discourse information from various subreddit communities using embedding techniques to develop an effective recommendation system. Our approach involves the use of content-based and collaborative filtering techniques to enhance the performance of the recommendation system. Our findings indicate that the proposed approach outperforms the use of each technique separately and provides interpretability in the recommendation process.
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2023.codi-1.22
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Michael Strube, Chloe Braud, Christian Hardmeier, Junyi Jessy Li, Sharid Loaiciga, Amir Zeldes
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CODI
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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163–172
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10.18653/v1/2023.codi-1.22
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Hy Dang, Bang Nguyen, Noah Ziems, and Meng Jiang. 2023. Embedding Mental Health Discourse for Community Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023), pages 163–172, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Embedding Mental Health Discourse for Community Recommendation (Dang et al., CODI 2023)
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