README.md

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license: mit
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# 🤝 Social Ties in Informal Conversations about ASD and ADHD

This dataset supports the study of **informal online social interactions** related to **Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)** and **Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)**. The focus is on modeling and visualizing **user social networks** and analyzing interactions in community question answering and health forums using **graph-based approaches**.

It was introduced in the following paper:

> Naghmeh Jamali, Mobin Nesari, and Zahra Rezvani. (2023). *Exploring Social Ties in Informal Conversations about ASD and ADHD: A Graph-Based Approach.* IEEE COINS 2023.

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## 📦 Dataset Structure

The dataset contains:
- Thread-level conversations about ASD and ADHD
- User-level interactions, including replies and mentions
- Graph-structured data indicating ties between participants
- Metadata and disorder classification (ASD vs. ADHD)

### Data Fields

| Field          | Description                                         |
|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| `thread_id`    | Unique ID of the conversation thread                |
| `user_id`      | Anonymized identifier of each user                  |
| `timestamp`    | Post date/time                                      |
| `text`         | Raw content of the user's post/comment              |
| `reply_to`     | User/post being replied to                          |
| `disorder`     | Either `"ASD"` or `"ADHD"`                          |
| `graph_features` | Optional extracted features (e.g., centrality)   |

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## 🧠 Applications

This dataset can be used for:
- Social Network Analysis (SNA) in medical online forums
- Graph-based modeling of conversations
- Community detection and role analysis
- Behavioral and linguistic study of users discussing NDDs
- Mental health informatics and social signal processing

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## 📊 Dataset Highlights

- **Domains**: ASD & ADHD (Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
- **Language**: Persian
- **Source**: Public medical/caregiving online forums
- **Data Type**: Text + Graph structure
- **Labels**: Disorder type, interaction edges

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## 📚 Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper:

```bibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{10189301,
  author    = {Jamali, Naghmeh and Nesari, Mobin and Rezvani, Zahra},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS)},
  title     = {Exploring Social Ties in Informal Conversations about ASD and ADHD: A Graph-Based Approach},
  year      = {2023},
  pages     = {1--6},
  keywords  = {Visualization;Pediatrics;Protocols;Social networking (online);Oral communication;Feature extraction;Size measurement;Social Network Analysis (SNA);Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NND);Graph Theory;Centrality Measures;Graph Mining},
  doi       = {10.1109/COINS57856.2023.10189301}
}