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Using Daily Language to Understand Drinking: Multi-Level Longitudinal Differential Language Analysis

  • Stony Brook University
  • Oslo Metropolitan University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Stanford University

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Abstract

Analyses for linking language with psychological factors or behaviors predominately treat linguistic features as a static set, working with a single document per person or aggregating across multiple documents into a single set of features. This limits language to mainly shed light on between-person differences rather than changes in behavior within-person. Here, we collected a novel dataset of daily surveys where participants were asked to describe their experienced well-being and report the number of alcoholic beverages they had within the past 24 hours. Through this data, we first build a multilevel forecasting model that can capture within-person change and leverage both the psychological features of the person and daily well-being responses. Then, we propose a longitudinal version of differential language analysis that finds patterns associated with drinking more (e.g. social events) and less (e.g. task-oriented), as well as distinguishing patterns of heavy drinks versus light drinkers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCLPsych 2024 - 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsAndrew Yates, Bart Desmet, Emily Prud�hommeaux, Ayah Zirikly, Steven Bedrick, Sean MacAvaney, Kfir Bar, Molly Ireland, Yaakov Ophir, Yaakov Ophir
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages133-144
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798891760806
StatePublished - 2024
Event9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, CLPsych 2024 - St. Julian's, Malta
Duration: Mar 21 2024 → …

Publication series

NameCLPsych 2024 - 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, CLPsych 2024
Country/TerritoryMalta
CitySt. Julian's
Period03/21/24 → …

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