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We developed a hybrid method to assess how well online community structures match user language. Our approach accurately predicts community membership from minimal text, validating community detection algorithms without manual labels.

Keywords:

classification validation community detection natural language processing social community social network training without labels

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Area of Science:

Computational Social Science
Network Science
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Community detection algorithms (CDAs) in social networks are often validated assuming their outputs are ground truth.
Evaluating the linguistic coherence of user-generated text within these detected communities is crucial for a nuanced understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and validate a hybrid methodology for assessing the alignment between structural communities and linguistic coherence in online social networks.
To offer a novel framework for evaluating Community Detection Algorithms (CDAs) using Natural Language Processing Classification Algorithms (NLPCA).

Main Methods:

A hybrid approach combining Community Detection Algorithms (CDAs) and Natural Language Processing Classification Algorithms (NLPCA) was developed.
BERTweet-based models were trained on Twitter data concerning climate change discussions to classify users into CDA-generated communities.
Classification accuracy and a coverage-precision trade-off metric were used to evaluate CDA performance without manual annotation.

Main Results:

The optimal CDA/NLPCA combinations achieved over 85% accuracy in predicting a user's community from just three short sentences.
This high accuracy demonstrates a significant alignment between the structural patterns of interaction networks and the linguistic patterns in online discourse.

Conclusions:

The proposed framework effectively scores CDAs based on semantic predictability and enables community membership prediction from minimal text.
This method provides practical benefits for low-supervision NLP tasks and is adaptable to various social platforms, offering a generalizable approach to evaluating online community coherence.