Generating insights about financial asks from Reddit posts and user interactions (2403.04308v2)
Abstract: As an increasingly large number of people turn to platforms like Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. for financial advice, generating insights about the content generated and interactions taking place within these platforms have become a key research question. This study proposes content and interaction analysis techniques for a large repository created from social media content, where people interactions are centered around financial information exchange. We propose methods for content analysis that can generate human-interpretable insights using topic-centered clustering and multi-document abstractive summarization. We share details of insights generated from our experiments with a large repository of data gathered from subreddit for personal finance. We have also explored the use of ChatGPT and Vicuna for generating responses to queries and compared them with human responses. The methods proposed in this work are generic and applicable to all large social media platforms.
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- Sachin Thukral (6 papers)
- Suyash Sangwan (3 papers)
- Vipul Chauhan (1 paper)
- Arnab Chatterjee (44 papers)
- Lipika Dey (12 papers)