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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Earth Sci.

Sec. Geohazards and Georisks

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1674305

Comprehensive Analysis and Application of Geological Disaster Information Leveraging Topic Modeling and Sentiment Mining

Provisionally accepted
GANG  CHENGGANG CHENG1,2Yaxi  WuYaxi Wu1Desheng  CaoDesheng Cao1*Keshun  WeiKeshun Wei3*Ye  WangYe Wang1Yongfei  WuYongfei Wu1
  • 1North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang, China
  • 2Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • 3University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

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In recent years, with the rapid advancement of urbanization in China and the successive implementation of major national strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the Sichuan–Xizang Railway, and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the potential risks and losses from geological disasters have continued to rise. Secondary disasters—including landslides, mudslides, and barrier lakes triggered by earthquakes—have significantly intensified the overall impact, posing severe challenges to disaster monitoring, early warning, emergency response, recovery, and reconstruction efforts. In this context, how to leverage new information technologies to achieve in-depth mining and application of geological disaster data has become a critical issue in disaster risk reduction and sustainable crisis management. This study focuses on topic modeling and sentiment analysis of disaster-related data, using geological disasters in China as a background. First, it reviews the recent advances in topic modeling and sentiment analysis techniques. Then, based on data characteristics and applicability, two major social media platforms—Weibo (Sina Weibo) and Rednote (Xiaohongshu)— are selected as primary data sources. The advantages of the LDA topic model (e.g., its unlabeled and multi-topic capabilities) and the lightweight processing efficiency of the SnowNLP sentiment analysis algorithm are discussed. As a case study, the "1·07" earthquake in Xigaze, Tibet, in 2025 is analyzed. The LDA model is used to conduct multi-topic classification and clustering visualization of Weibo disaster topic data. Combined with the SnowNLP sentiment analysis algorithm, the phased sentiment evolution judgment application is carried out using the 6-month Rednote comment data. The results demonstrate that the LDA model effectively extracts geological disaster-related themes—such as emergency response and post-disaster recovery—and that sentiment analysis technology can reveal phase-based patterns in public emotions. These findings provide scientific support for geological disaster emergency management and public opinion guidance. The research also expands the application potential of topic modeling and sentiment analysis in the field of geological disasters and offers a direction for future integration and optimization of multimodal social media data.

Keywords: Geological disaster, Data Mining, topic model, sentiment analysis, visual analysis

Received: 27 Jul 2025; Accepted: 01 Sep 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 CHENG, Wu, Cao, Wei, Wang and Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Desheng Cao, North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang, China
Keshun Wei, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

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