Academic Articles & Research Papers

Sleepless in America: A social sensing study of pandemic-era sleeplessness using nighttime social media data.

Modeling the Interplay of Time, Space, Users, Topics, and Sentiment: A Novel Analytical Framework for Social Media Data Analysis.

Populations, exposures and outcomes: How social media data is poised to advance climate-demography research.

Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research

The replication crisis has highlighted the importance of reproducibility and replicability in the social and behavioral sciences, including in communication research. While there have been some discussions of and studies on replications in ...

Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Patterns in Green Spaces for Urban Studies Using Location-Based Social Media Data

Green parks are vital public spaces and play a major role in urban living and well-being. Research on the attractiveness of green parks often relies on traditional techniques, such as questionnaires and in-situ surveys, but these methods a...

Accessibility Assessment of Buildings Based on Multi-Source Spatial Data: Taking Wuhan as a Case Study

The question of whether each building of housing estate has equal access to nearby social service resources (e.g., public transportation service, catering, entertainment, etc.) is a major concern of citizens. This paper takes Wuhan as a cas...

Seeing and Thinking about Urban Blue–Green Space: Monitoring Public Landscape Preferences Using Bimodal Data

Urban blue–green spaces (UBGSs) are a significant avenue for addressing the worldwide mental health crisis. To effectively optimise landscape design and management for the promotion of health benefits from UBGS, it is crucial to objectively...

Assessing perception and equity of cultural ecosystem services in urban parks using social media data

Abstract Scientific assessment of cultural ecosystem services (CESs) levels in urban parks and refined analysis of their spatial equity are essential for residents’ social well-being. However, traditional assessment methods often fail to ca...

Natural language processing in Alzheimer's disease research: Systematic review of methods, data, and efficacy

Abstract INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevalence is increasing, with no current cure. Natural language processing (NLP) offers the potential for non‐invasive diagnostics, social burden assessment, and research advancements in AD. M...

Natural Language Processing of Social Media as Screening for Suicide Risk

Suicide is among the 10 most common causes of death, as assessed by the World Health Organization. For every death by suicide, an estimated 138 people's lives are meaningfully affected, and almost any other statistic around suicide deaths i...

Transformer-Based Abstractive Summarization for Reddit and Twitter: Single Posts vs. Comment Pools in Three Languages

Abstractive summarization is a technique that allows for extracting condensed meanings from long texts, with a variety of potential practical applications. Nonetheless, today’s abstractive summarization research is limited to testing the mo...

Human Behavior Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) has emerged as a critical interdisciplinary field, combining psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and data science to model, understand, and predict human behavior across diverse domains. This paper ...

Research on Landscape Perception and Visual Attributes Based on Social Media Data—A Case Study on Wuhan University

With the rapid rise of social media, the photo-taking behavior of tourists and their uploaded photos provide a new perspective to explore landscape visual characters. In this study, we provide methodological advancements for assessing lands...

Siamese text classification network (SiamTCN) for multi-class multi-label information extraction of typhoon disasters from social media data

Accurately monitoring disaster effects is a crucial task in relief efforts (e.g. typhoon rescue). Social media data plays a vital role in disaster management, while deep learning-based methods gain more attention in typhoon disaster researc...

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A machine learning approach predicts future risk to suicidal ideation from social media data

Abstract Machine learning analysis of social media data represents a promising way to capture longitudinal environmental influences contributing to individual risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Our objective was to generate an algori...