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Area of Science:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Computational Social Science
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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  • Social support is crucial for well-being, belonging, and resilience.
  • Online communities provide platforms for social support, but identifying it automatically is challenging.
  • Existing methods lack nuanced understanding of support targets and types in digital interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce Social Support Detection (SSD) as a novel NLP task.
  • Develop and evaluate models for identifying social support in online comments.
  • Classify the target (individual/group) and type of support provided to specific communities.

Main Methods:

  • Annotated a dataset of 9,998 YouTube comments for social support.
  • Employed traditional machine learning with linguistic, psycholinguistic, emotional, and sentiment features.
  • Utilized neural network models with word embeddings for enhanced classification.

Main Results:

  • Group-oriented support is prevalent in online discourse.
  • Integrating psycholinguistic and affective features with unigram representations improved classification.
  • Achieved macro F1-scores ranging from 0.72 to 0.82 across subtasks.

Conclusions:

  • SSD is a viable NLP task for understanding online social support dynamics.
  • Models can effectively classify support type and target, revealing societal trends.
  • Further research can refine NLP models for nuanced analysis of digital social interactions.