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Title: Text Analysis for Understanding Symptoms of Social Anxiety in Student Veterans
A significant portion of the veteran population suffers from PTSD, a mental illness that is often accompanied by social anxiety disorder. Student veterans are especially vulnerable as they struggle to adapt to a new, less structured college lifestyle. In order to assist psychologists and social workers in the treatment of social anxiety disorder we use machine learning to analyze transcribed interview text and apply topic modelling to highlight common stress factors for student veterans. The results detailed in this paper also have broader impacts in fields such as pedagogy and public health.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1757893
PAR ID:
10326088
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Volume:
35
Issue:
18
Page Range / eLocation ID:
15958-15959
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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