Public Response to Federal Electronic Cigarette Regulations Analyzed Using Social Media Data Through Natural Language Processing: Topic Modeling Study

Shuo-Yu Lin   ¹ , PhD ;   Sahithi Kiran Tulabandu   ² , MS, PharmD ;   J Randy Koch   ³ , PhD ;   Rashelle Hayes   ⁴ , PhD ;   Andrew Barnes   ⁵ , PhD ;   Hemant Purohit   ⁶ , PhD ;   Songqing Chen   ⁷ , PhD ;   Bo Han   ⁷ , PhD ;   Hong Xue   ¹ , PhD

¹ Department of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States

² WVU Health Affairs Institute, Morgantown, WV, United States

³ Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

⁵ Department of Health Behavior and Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

⁶ Department of Information Sciences and Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States

⁷ Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States