Published on in Vol 5 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/67333, first published .
Differential Analysis of Age, Gender, Race, Sentiment, and Emotion in Substance Use Discourse on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Natural Language Processing Approach

Differential Analysis of Age, Gender, Race, Sentiment, and Emotion in Substance Use Discourse on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Natural Language Processing Approach

Differential Analysis of Age, Gender, Race, Sentiment, and Emotion in Substance Use Discourse on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Natural Language Processing Approach

Julina Maharjan   1 , BE ;   Ruoming Jin   1 , Prof Dr ;   Jennifer King   2 , Prof Dr ;   Jianfeng Zhu   1 , PhD ;   Deric Kenne   2 , Prof Dr

1 Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States

2 Department of Public Health, Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States

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  • Julina Maharjan, BE
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Kent State University
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