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Using Large Pre-Trained Language Models To Track Emotions Of Cancer Patients On Twitter, Will Baker
Using Large Pre-Trained Language Models To Track Emotions Of Cancer Patients On Twitter, Will Baker
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Twitter is a microblogging website where any user can publicly release a message, called a tweet, expressing their feelings about current events or their own lives. This candid, unfiltered feedback is valuable in the spaces of healthcare and public health communications, where it may be difficult for cancer patients to divulge personal information to healthcare teams, and randomly selected patients may decline participation in surveys about their experiences. In this thesis, BERTweet, a state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) model, was used to predict sentiment and emotion labels for cancer-related tweets collected in 2019 and 2020. In longitudinal plots, trends in …