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title = "Finding Common Patterns in Domestic Violence Stories Posted on {R}eddit",
author = "Shokri, Mohammad and
Klapper, Emily and
Shan, Jason and
Levitan, Sarah Ita",
editor = "Clark, Elizabeth and
Lal, Yash Kumar and
Chaturvedi, Snigdha and
Iyyer, Mohit and
Brei, Anneliese and
Modi, Ashutosh and
Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the The 7th Workshop on Narrative Understanding",
month = may,
year = "2025",
address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.wnu-1.6/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.wnu-1.6",
pages = "15--25",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-247-3",
abstract = "Domestic violence survivors often share their experiences in online spaces, offering valuable insights into common abuse patterns. This study analyzes a dataset of personal narratives about domestic violence from Reddit, focusing on event extraction and topic modeling to uncover recurring themes. We evaluate GPT-4 and LLaMA-3.1 for extracting key sentences, finding that GPT-4 exhibits higher precision, while LLaMA-3.1 achieves better recall. Using LLM-based topic assignment, we identify dominant themes such as psychological aggression, financial abuse, and physical assault which align with previously published psychology findings. A co-occurrence and PMI analysis further reveals the interdependencies among different abuse types, emphasizing the multifaceted nature of domestic violence. Our findings provide a structured approach to analyzing survivor narratives, with implications for social support systems and policy interventions."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Finding Common Patterns in Domestic Violence Stories Posted on Reddit
%A Shokri, Mohammad
%A Klapper, Emily
%A Shan, Jason
%A Levitan, Sarah Ita
%Y Clark, Elizabeth
%Y Lal, Yash Kumar
%Y Chaturvedi, Snigdha
%Y Iyyer, Mohit
%Y Brei, Anneliese
%Y Modi, Ashutosh
%Y Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi
%S Proceedings of the The 7th Workshop on Narrative Understanding
%D 2025
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Albuquerque, New Mexico
%@ 979-8-89176-247-3
%F shokri-etal-2025-finding
%X Domestic violence survivors often share their experiences in online spaces, offering valuable insights into common abuse patterns. This study analyzes a dataset of personal narratives about domestic violence from Reddit, focusing on event extraction and topic modeling to uncover recurring themes. We evaluate GPT-4 and LLaMA-3.1 for extracting key sentences, finding that GPT-4 exhibits higher precision, while LLaMA-3.1 achieves better recall. Using LLM-based topic assignment, we identify dominant themes such as psychological aggression, financial abuse, and physical assault which align with previously published psychology findings. A co-occurrence and PMI analysis further reveals the interdependencies among different abuse types, emphasizing the multifaceted nature of domestic violence. Our findings provide a structured approach to analyzing survivor narratives, with implications for social support systems and policy interventions.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.wnu-1.6
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.wnu-1.6/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.wnu-1.6
%P 15-25
Markdown (Informal)
[Finding Common Patterns in Domestic Violence Stories Posted on Reddit](https://aclanthology.org/2025.wnu-1.6/) (Shokri et al., WNU 2025)
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