Analyzing Jargon on Reddit

Slideshow Presentation

Extraction Process as outlined by Farrell^[1]

1. Frequency Filtering
2. Dictionary-based Filtering
3. Topic Checking
4. *User Usage Filtering

Tech Stack:

• psycopg2
• gensim
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

Personal Notes

The most active commenters appear to be in AskReddit, which is a subreddit for asking general questions for anything aimed at all of Reddit. This seems to be a good representation of the general language usage of Reddit and a good baseline to remove jargon that is site specific and not subreddit specific.

LDA Visualization

Citations

1. Farrell, Tracie & Araque, Oscar & Fernandez, Miriam & Alani, Harith. (2020). On the use of Jargon and Word Embeddings to Explore Subculture within the Reddit’s Manosphere. 221-230. 10.1145/3394231.3397912.