Assessing Large Language Models in Building a Structured Dataset From AskDocs Subreddit Data: Methodological Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In an era marked by a growing reliance on digital platforms for health care consultation, the subreddit r/AskDocs has emerged as a pivotal forum. However, the vast, unstructured nature of forum data presents a formidable challenge; the extraction and meaningful analysis of such data require advanced tools that can navigate the complexities of language and context inherent in user-generated content. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) offers new tools for the extraction of health-related content from unstructured text found in social media platforms such as Reddit.

Objective

This methodological study aimed to evaluate the use of LLMs to systematically transform the rich, unstructured textual data from the AskDocs subreddit into a structured dataset, an ap

SUBMITTER: Snell Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12543290 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature