Affective Behaviour Analysis of On-line User Interactions:Are On-line Support Groups more Therapeutic than Twitter?
Table 5: The distribution (in percentages) of reply sentiment labels with respect to the post’s sentiment label.
['[BOLD] Posts', '[BOLD] Comments Negative', '[BOLD] Comments Neutral', '[BOLD] Comments Positive']
The patterns of distribution are similar across the datasets. We can observe that overall, replies tend to have a positive sentiment, which suggests that replying posters tend to have a positive attitude. However, the ratio of positive comments is higher for OSG than for Twitter.