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A fundamental component of user-level social media language based clinical depression modelling is depression symptoms detection (DSD). Unfortunately, there does not exist any DSD dataset that reflects both the clinical insights and the…

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In this paper, we delineate the strategy employed by our team, DeepLearningBrasil, which secured us the first place in the shared task DepSign-LT-EDI@RANLP-2023, achieving a 47.0% Macro F1-Score and a notable 2.4% advantage. The task was to…

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This work explores the utilization of Romanized Sinhala social media data to identify individuals at risk of depression. A machine learning-based framework is presented for the automatic screening of depression symptoms by analyzing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jayathi Hewapathirana , Deshan Sumanathilaka

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

Early Detection of Risks (EDR) on the Web involves identifying at-risk users as early as possible. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven to solve various linguistic tasks efficiently, assessing their reasoning ability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Horacio Thompson , Maximiliano Sapino , Edgardo Ferretti , Marcelo Errecalde

Previous text-based depression detection is commonly based on large user-generated data. Sparse scenarios like clinical conversations are less investigated. This work proposes a text-based multi-task BGRU network with pretrained word…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Depression is a major global public health challenge and its early identification is crucial. Social media data provides a new perspective for depression detection, but existing methods face limitations such as insufficient accuracy,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yukun Yang

We present working notes for DS@GT team in the eRisk 2024 for Tasks 1 and 3. We propose a ranking system for Task 1 that predicts symptoms of depression based on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) questionnaire using binary classifiers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 David Guecha , Aaryan Potdar , Anthony Miyaguchi

The early detection of mental health disorders from social media text is critical for enabling timely support, risk assessment, and referral to appropriate resources. This work introduces multiMentalRoBERTa, a fine-tuned RoBERTa model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 K M Sajjadul Islam , John Fields , Praveen Madiraju

Detecting depression from social media text is still a challenging task. This is due to different language styles, informal expression, and the lack of annotated data in many languages. To tackle these issues, we propose, Semi-SMDNet, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Velpuru Navya , Sanskar , Shuja Uddin Qureshi , Nagendra Kumar

For preventing youth suicide, social media platforms have received much attention from researchers. A few researches apply machine learning, or deep learning-based text classification approaches to classify social media posts containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Siqu Long , Rina Cabral , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

Depression is a common disease worldwide. It is difficult to diagnose and continues to be underdiagnosed. Because depressed patients constantly share their symptoms, major life events, and treatments on social media, researchers are turning…

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Social media has recently emerged as a premier method to disseminate information online. Through these online networks, tens of millions of individuals communicate their thoughts, personal experiences, and social ideals. We therefore…

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This study investigates the detection and classification of depressive and non-depressive states using deep learning approaches. Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder that substantially affects quality of life, and early…

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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,…

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As the impact of technology on our lives is increasing, we witness increased use of social media that became an essential tool not only for communication but also for sharing information with community about our thoughts and feelings. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ilija Tavchioski , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak

The CLEF eRisk Laboratory explores solutions to different tasks related to risk detection on the Internet. In the 2023 edition, Task 1 consisted of searching for symptoms of depression, the objective of which was to extract user writings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Horacio Thompson , Leticia Cagnina , Marcelo Errecalde

The detection of depression in social media posts is crucial due to the increasing prevalence of mental health issues. Traditional machine learning algorithms often fail to capture intricate textual patterns, limiting their effectiveness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Marios Kerasiotis , Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis

Mental health poses a significant challenge for an individual's well-being. Text analysis of rich resources, like social media, can contribute to deeper understanding of illnesses and provide means for their early detection. We tackle a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Ivan Sekulić , Michael Strube

Limited access to mental healthcare resources hinders timely depression diagnosis, leading to detrimental outcomes. Social media platforms present a valuable data source for early detection, yet this task faces two significant challenges:…

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