Extracting Affect Aggregates from Longitudinal Social Media Data with Temporal Adapters for Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17990v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:02:00 GMT
• Title: Extracting Affect Aggregates from Longitudinal Social Media Data with Temporal Adapters for Large Language Models
• Authors: Georg Ahnert, Max Pellert, David Garcia, Markus Strohmaier,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes temporally aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) as a tool for longitudinal analysis of social media data. We fine-tune Temporal Adapters for Llama 3 8B on full timelines from a panel of British Twitter users, and extract longitudinal aggregates of emotions and attitudes with established questionnaires.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper proposes temporally aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) as a tool for longitudinal analysis of social media data. We fine-tune Temporal Adapters for Llama 3 8B on full timelines from a panel of British Twitter users, and extract longitudinal aggregates of emotions and attitudes with established questionnaires. We validate our estimates against representative British survey data and find strong positive, significant correlations for several collective emotions. The obtained estimates are robust across multiple training seeds and prompt formulations, and in line with collective emotions extracted using a traditional classification model trained on labeled data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to extend the analysis of affect in LLMs to a longitudinal setting through Temporal Adapters. Our work enables new approaches towards the longitudinal analysis of social media data.

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