arXiv:2603.24765cs.IRstat.ML2026-03

用主题模型自动建群,让在线健康社区更精准匹配用户需求。

Enhancing Online Support Group Formation Using Topic Modeling Techniques

  • 结合文本、社交网络和人口统计,用机器学习生成个性化支持群。
  • 在200万条帖子上测试,准确率和语义连贯性均显著优于传统方法。
  • 适合研究健康社交网络或想提升用户匹配效率的团队使用。

在线健康社区(OHCs)对促进同伴支持和改善健康结果至关重要。平台内的支持群可提供更个性化、更凝聚的互助,但传统建群方式存在可扩展性差、分类静态、个性化不足等问题。为此,我们提出两种新型机器学习模型:组特定狄利克雷多项式回归(gDMR)和组特定结构化主题模型(gSTM)。二者融合用户生成的文本内容、人口统计信息及基于用户网络节点嵌入的互动数据,系统化实现个性化、语义连贯的支持群自动生成。我们在来自MedHelp的大规模数据集(超200万条用户发帖)上评估,两个模型在预测准确率(保留对数似然)、语义连贯性(UMass指标)和组内一致性方面均显著优于基线方法(如LDA、DMR、STM)。gDMR通过利用网络结构与人口数据中的关系模式,生成可直接用于实践的组协变量;gSTM则强调稀疏约束,生成更具区分性和主题特异性的群组。定性分析进一步验证了模型生成群组与人工标注主题的一致性,表明其在慢性病管理、诊断困惑、心理健康等多样健康议题上的实际应用价值。该框架减少对人工筛选的依赖,为提升在线健康社区的同伴互动、患者参与度和群体韧性提供了可扩展解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Online health communities (OHCs) are vital for fostering peer support and improving health outcomes. Support groups within these platforms can provide more personalized and cohesive peer support, yet traditional support group formation methods face challenges related to scalability, static categorization, and insufficient personalization. To overcome these limitations, we propose two novel machine learning models for automated support group formation: the Group specific Dirichlet Multinomial Regression (gDMR) and the Group specific Structured Topic Model (gSTM). These models integrate user generated textual content, demographic profiles, and interaction data represented through node embeddings derived from user networks to systematically automate personalized, semantically coherent support group formation. We evaluate the models on a large scale dataset from MedHelp, comprising over 2 million user posts. Both models substantially outperform baseline methods including LDA, DMR, and STM in predictive accuracy (held out log likelihood), semantic coherence (UMass metric), and internal group consistency. The gDMR model yields group covariates that facilitate practical implementation by leveraging relational patterns from network structures and demographic data. In contrast, gSTM emphasizes sparsity constraints to generate more distinct and thematically specific groups. Qualitative analysis further validates the alignment between model generated groups and manually coded themes, showing the practical relevance of the models in informing groups that address diverse health concerns such as chronic illness management, diagnostic uncertainty, and mental health. By reducing reliance on manual curation, these frameworks provide scalable solutions that enhance peer interactions within OHCs, with implications for patient engagement, community resilience, and health outcomes.

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