Linguistic variation analysis in Veterans’ tweets
M. Ajay Adithya, Sanjeeva Kumar · AIP conference proceedings · 2023
Compatriots revere soldiers for their willingness to put their life on the line for serving the nation. They deserve to be admired, given their power to endure the hardships of battlegrounds. Experts say that war veterans often show signs of traumatic disorders. It can be seen in the messages expressed on social media by these individuals. In this research, we leveraged tweets to gain insights into the sentiments of war veterans. We examined the elements of the tweets to study the lexical and non-lexical features. We counted adjectives with top 100 frequencies in soldiers and civilians’ corpora and used EmoLex to perform emotion analysis on 10 emotions. Our objective was to compare tweets of war survivors with the civilians. We performed this comparison to find cues in the tweets of war veterans that indicate psychological distress.