Comparison on Heterosexual and Homosexual Woman’s Lonely Heart Ads in Taiwan: Taking AllTogether and Lesbian Board on PTT Web Forum as Examples

Yu-Hsuan Lin


Abstract
This study aims to compare the lonely heart ads of heterosexual and homosexual women in Taiwan. The data was collected from the AllTogether (heterosexual) and Lesbian (homosexual) boards on the PTT web forum. Word frequency analysis and topic modeling were used to analyze the data. It was found that lesbians tend to state more on emotional and spiritual connection, using words that describe personality traits and changes in emotions. Heterosexual women, on the other hand, showed more concern about practical matters such as religion, occupation, and habits, possibly with the goal of building a family relationship through marriage and starting a family.
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2023.nlp4dh-1.30
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Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
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December
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2023
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Tokyo, Japan
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Mika Hämäläinen, Emily Öhman, Flammie Pirinen, Khalid Alnajjar, So Miyagawa, Yuri Bizzoni, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter
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NLP4DH | IWCLUL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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278–287
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Yu-Hsuan Lin. 2023. Comparison on Heterosexual and Homosexual Woman’s Lonely Heart Ads in Taiwan: Taking AllTogether and Lesbian Board on PTT Web Forum as Examples. In Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, pages 278–287, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Comparison on Heterosexual and Homosexual Woman’s Lonely Heart Ads in Taiwan: Taking AllTogether and Lesbian Board on PTT Web Forum as Examples (Lin, NLP4DH-IWCLUL 2023)
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