The researchers used NLP to analyze discussions on a range of subreddits
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic increased discussions about anxiety and suicide on Reddit, according to a new AI study by MIT and Harvard University researchers.
The team analyzed conversations on 15 subreddits focused on mental health issues, along with 11-non-mental health forums, such as r/PersonalFinance.
They first used natural language processing algorithms to find negative semantic changes in posts from 826,961 different users. Next, they applied unsupervised