The Use of Natural Language Processing Methods in Reddit to Investigate Opioid Use: Scoping Review
This scoping review identified a wide variety of NLP techniques and applications used to support surveillance and social media interventions addressing the opioid crisis. Despite the clear potential of these methods to enable the identification of opioid-relevant content in Reddit and its analysis, there are limits to the degree of interpretive meaning that they can provide. Moreover, we identified the need for standardized ethical guidelines to govern the use of Reddit data to safeguard the anonymity and privacy of people using these forums.
Authors
- Thomas Patton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5134-3308)
- Annick Bórquez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6033-9837)
- Amarnath Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0897-120X)
- Alexandra Almeida (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2092-5070)
- Mike Conway (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3209-8108)
- Steffanie A. Strathdee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7724-691X)
Institutions
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- San Diego Supercomputer Center (US)
- San Diego State University (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Infodemiology
- Published
- 2024-09-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/51156
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.32