Experimenting with Transformer-based and Large Language Models for Classifying Effects of Outdoor Spaces on Social Anxiety in Social Media Data

Falwah Alhamed, Julia Ive, Lucia Specia


Abstract
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a common condition, affecting a significant portion of the population. While research suggests spending time in nature can alleviate anxiety, the specific impact on SAD remains unclear. This study explores the relationship between discussions of outdoor spaces and social anxiety on social media. We leverage transformer-based and large language models (LLMs) to analyze a social media dataset focused on SAD. We developed three methods for the task of predicting the effects of outdoor spaces on SAD in social media. A two-stage pipeline classifier achieved the best performance of our submissions with results exceeding baseline performance.
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2024.smm4h-1.21
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Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Dongfang Xu, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
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SMM4H | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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95–97
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Falwah Alhamed, Julia Ive, and Lucia Specia. 2024. Experimenting with Transformer-based and Large Language Models for Classifying Effects of Outdoor Spaces on Social Anxiety in Social Media Data. In Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks, pages 95–97, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Experimenting with Transformer-based and Large Language Models for Classifying Effects of Outdoor Spaces on Social Anxiety in Social Media Data (Alhamed et al., SMM4H-WS 2024)
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