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Depression has proven to be a significant public health issue, profoundly affecting the psychological well-being of individuals. If it remains undiagnosed, depression can lead to severe health issues, which can manifest physically and even…

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Due to its popularity and availability, social media data may present a new way to identify individuals who are experiencing mental illness. By analysing blog content, this study aimed to investigate the associations between linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 B. ODea , T. W. Boonstra , M. E. Larsen , T. Nguyen , S. Venkatesh , H. Christensen

In recent years, due to the mental burden of depression, the number of people who endanger their lives has been increasing rapidly. The online social network (OSN) provides researchers with another perspective for detecting individuals…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yiding Wang , Zhenyi Wang , Chenghao Li , Yilin Zhang , Haizhou Wang

Conventional approaches to identify depression are not scalable, and the public has limited awareness of mental health, especially in developing countries. As evident by recent studies, social media has the potential to complement mental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Heng Ee Tay , Mei Kuan Lim , Chun Yong Chong

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are increasingly recognized as a critical societal concern, highlighting the urgent need for effective tools to enable early detection of suicidal risk. In this work, we develop robust machine learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zaihan Yang , Ryan Leonard , Hien Tran , Rory Driscoll , Chadbourne Davis

Mental well-being and social media have been closely related domains of study. In this research a novel model, AD prediction model, for anxious depression prediction in real-time tweets is proposed. This mixed anxiety-depressive disorder is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Akshi Kumar , Aditi Sharma , Anshika Arora

Early risk detection of mental illnesses has a massive positive impact upon the well-being of people. The eRisk workshop has been at the forefront of enabling interdisciplinary research in developing computational methods to automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ana-Maria Bucur , Adrian Cosma , Liviu P. Dinu

The United States is currently experiencing an unprecedented opioid crisis, and opioid overdose has become a leading cause of injury and death. Effective opioid addiction recovery calls for not only medical treatments, but also behavioral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zhou Yang , Spencer Bradshaw , Rattikorn Hewett , Fang Jin

Support-seekers' self-disclosure of their suffering experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the post can help them get needed peer support in online mental health communities (OMHCs). However, such mental health self-disclosure could be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Han Zhang , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuxiang Zhou , Ryan Louie , Taewook Kim , Qingyu Guo , Shuailin Li , Zhenhui Peng

Since the uptake of social media, researchers have mined online discussions to track the outbreak and evolution of specific diseases or chronic conditions such as influenza or depression. To broaden the set of diseases under study, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sanja Scepanovic , Luca Maria Aiello , Ke Zhou , Sagar Joglekar , Daniele Quercia

On social media, several individuals experiencing suicidal ideation (SI) do not disclose their distress explicitly. Instead, signs may surface indirectly through everyday posts or peer interactions. Detecting such implicit signals early is…

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Self-disclosed mental health diagnoses, which serve as ground truth annotations of mental health status in the absence of clinical measures, underpin the conclusions behind most computational studies of mental health language from the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Keith Harrigian , Mark Dredze

Given the current state of the world, because of existing situations around the world, millions of people suffering from mental illnesses feel isolated and unable to receive help in person. Psychological studies have shown that our state of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Pratinav Seth , Mihir Agarwal

Seven out of ten people with bipolar disorder are initially misdiagnosed and thirty percent of individuals with bipolar disorder will commit suicide. Identifying the early phases of the disorder is one of the key components for reducing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yen-Hao Huang , Lin-Hung Wei , Yi-Shin Chen

Depression has affected millions of people worldwide and has become one of the most common mental disorders. Early mental disorder detection can reduce costs for public health agencies and prevent other major comorbidities. Additionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Giuliano Lorenzoni , Cristina Tavares , Nathalia Nascimento , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

Mental illnesses adversely affect a significant proportion of the population worldwide. However, the methods traditionally used for estimating and characterizing the prevalence of mental health conditions are time-consuming and expensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Silvio Amir , Glen Coppersmith , Paula Carvalho , Mário J. Silva , Byron C. Wallace

Depression is a serious medical condition that is suffered by a large number of people around the world. It significantly affects the way one feels, causing a persistent lowering of mood. In this paper, we propose a novel attention-based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Syed Arbaaz Qureshi , Mohammed Hasanuzzaman , Sriparna Saha , Gaël Dias

This review underscores the critical need for effective strategies to identify and support individuals with suicidal ideation, exploiting technological innovations in ML and DL to further suicide prevention efforts. The study details the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mohaiminul Islam Bhuiyan , Nur Shazwani Kamarudin , Nur Hafieza Ismail

The high prevalence of depression in society has given rise to the need for new digital tools to assist in its early detection. To this end, existing research has mainly focused on detecting depression in the domain of social media, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Petr Lorenc , Ana-Sabina Uban , Paolo Rosso , Jan Šedivý

Social support, conveyed through a multitude of interactions and platforms such as social media, plays a pivotal role in fostering a sense of belonging, aiding resilience in the face of challenges, and enhancing overall well-being. This…

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