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social media analysis teams

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Chinese mental health dataset reveals social media language differences

MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media

Abstract: Mental health research on social media has been dominated by English-language datasets and DSM-5-centered resources, limiting cross-lingual and cross-cultural understanding of online mental health expression. We introduce MATCHA, the first Chinese multi-disorder mental health dataset that links disorder-specific Weibo Super-Topic communities with users' broader public timelines. MATCHA covers seven DSM-5 disorders and a control group, comprising 46,025 cohort-level users and 1.8 million posts. The dataset distinguishes users with explicit self-disclosure evidence from broader disorder-related participants through an LLM-assisted annotation pipeline, and is released in a rigorously de-identified, controlled-access format. Using MATCHA, we analyze behavioral, linguistic, symptom-related, and life-event-related patterns across disorders, and conduct cross-lingual comparisons with Twitter-STMHD. Our analyses show that Weibo Super-Topics function as concentrated spaces for affective and health-related expression, while cross-platform differences between Weibo and Twitter often exceed cross-disorder variation. MATCHA provides a new resource for community-aware and cross-lingual mental health NLP research.

Mon 26 OctComputation and Language
The gist
Most studies about mental health on social media focus on English speakers and use a specific manual for diagnosing disorders, limiting understanding of other languages and cultures. The authors created MATCHA, a large dataset from Chinese social media that links users discussing seven different mental health disorders with their public posts. They used a smart method to identify users who clearly say they have these disorders and compared language and behavior across disorders and between Chinese and English social media platforms. Their work shows that language and expression vary more between platforms than between disorders, providing new data for mental health research in different languages.
Open → 2610.35512v1

Arabic argument recognition improved with new sequence tagging system

TTLab at Daleel 2026: STAR-Ar, Sequence Tagging for Argument Recognition in Arabic

Abstract: Argument Mining (AM) is a critical NLP task that remains significantly under-resourced in Arabic. This paper presents $\testtt{STAR-Ar}$, a BERT-BiLSTM-CRF architecture for argument discourse detection and classification, as our system for Daleel 2026, the inaugural Arabic argument mining shared task. The task requires the identification and classification of argumentative discourse units (ADUs) in debate and editorial texts.We jointly model these two objectives as a token-level sequence labeling task using a BERT-BiLSTM-CRF architecture that combines contextual transformer embeddings with structural transition constraints to support accurate span detection. $\testtt{STAR-Ar}$ achieves an F1-score of 72.69 on validation and 73.7 on test data. Our domain-specific analysis shows that models trained exclusively on editorials underperform those trained on debates, a disparity we primarily attribute to the smaller size of the editorial dataset. The code for $\testtt{STAR-Ar}$ is available at ${\href{https://github.com/ENTAILab/daleel_2026_Arabic-Argumentative-Discourse-Mining}{\faGithub~TTLab at Daleel 2026}}$

Wed 30 SeptComputation and LanguageArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
The gist
Understanding arguments in Arabic texts is hard because there aren't many tools for it. The authors built STAR-Ar, a system that detects and classifies argumentative parts of debate and editorial texts by looking at every word and its context. They combined a transformer model called BERT with other methods to recognize argument spans accurately. Their system scored around 73% in tests and found that training on debates worked better than on editorials, mainly because editorials had less data.
Open → 2609.39385v1

Reddit hate narratives isolated by clustering entity based evaluations

Look What You Made Us Cluster: Hate Narrative Extraction from Reddit Discourse

Abstract: Narrative extraction allows us to identify online hate narratives, supporting the construction of rigorous detection systems. Existing computational approaches, however, are limited in precision as they rely on semantic representations, which tend to capture only surface-level meaning. To detect more precise and interpretable narratives, we present an extraction pipeline that represents narratives as entity-evaluation pairs. Narratives are extracted using a Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning process that extends Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, identifying the aspect, classifying its judgement type as the basis for evaluation, and deriving the evaluation accordingly. Extracted narratives are then clustered using Leiden, following which clusters are resolved to an intended level of granularity through an LLM-guided refinement process. We illustrate this narrative pipeline with English Reddit comments from 2024 that criticize Taylor Swift, analyzing a representative cluster that exhibits hate speech patterns to demonstrate its interpretive value.

Tue 29 SeptComputation and LanguageSocial and Information Networks
The gist
The authors focus on detecting hate narratives on Reddit more precisely by looking at not just words but who or what is being talked about and how they are judged. They created a process that uses a large AI language model to identify pairs of entities and evaluations, then groups similar narratives together to better understand hate speech patterns. This method was demonstrated with posts criticizing Taylor Swift, showing how it can reveal clear hate speech narratives. This approach aims to provide clearer, more interpretable analysis of online hate than previous methods that only looked at surface meaning.
Open → 2609.37408v1