Utilizing Large Language Models to Monitor Social Media for Disability: An Analysis of Sentiment and Disability Models in Tweets
Abdul Hamid Dabboussi, Iman Yousuf, Hannah Bullock, Naleni Jacob, Vijay Mago, Christo El Morr · Studies in health technology and informatics · 2025
This study explores how well large language models (like the kind that powers ChatGPT) can analyze online conversations about disability rights. We specifically looked at whether these models could: 1) identify if tweets about people with disabilities were positive or negative, and 2) tell if the tweets viewed disability as a problem with society (social model) or a problem with the individual (medical model). We collected 5,000 tweets and trained a language model to analyze them. The results demonstrated promising accuracy levels for sentiment analysis and social vs. medical model classification.