Transition to Adulthood for Young People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities: Emotion Detection and Topic Modeling

September 21, 2022 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

Repo contents: README.md, contractions.json, emotion_detection, topic_modeling

Authors Yan Liu, Maria Laricheva, Chiyu Zhang, Patrick Boutet, Guanyu Chen, Terence Tracey, Giuseppe Carenini, Richard Young arXiv ID 2209.10477 Category cs.CL: Computation & Language Cross-listed stat.AP, stat.ML Citations 0 Venue International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling Repository https://github.com/mlaricheva/emotion_topic_modeling ⭐ 4 Last Checked 3 months ago

Abstract

Transition to Adulthood is an essential life stage for many families. The prior research has shown that young people with intellectual or development disabil-ities (IDD) have more challenges than their peers. This study is to explore how to use natural language processing (NLP) methods, especially unsupervised machine learning, to assist psychologists to analyze emotions and sentiments and to use topic modeling to identify common issues and challenges that young people with IDD and their families have. Additionally, the results were compared to those obtained from young people without IDD who were in tran-sition to adulthood. The findings showed that NLP methods can be very useful for psychologists to analyze emotions, conduct cross-case analysis, and sum-marize key topics from conversational data. Our Python code is available at https://github.com/mlaricheva/emotion_topic_modeling.