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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

Most previous studies on automatic recognition model for bipolar disorder (BD) were based on both social media and linguistic features. The present study investigates the possibility of adopting only language-based features, namely the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Yen-Hao Huang , Yi-Hsin Chen , Fernando Henrique Calderon Alvarado , Ssu-Rui Lee , Shu-I Wu , Yuwen Lai , Yi-Shin Chen

The global increase in mental illness requires innovative detection methods for early intervention. Social media provides a valuable platform to identify mental illness through user-generated content. This systematic review examines machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuchen Cao , Jianglai Dai , Zhongyan Wang , Yeyubei Zhang , Xiaorui Shen , Yunchong Liu , Yexin Tian

Mental health challenges and cyberbullying are increasingly prevalent in digital spaces, necessitating scalable and interpretable detection systems. This paper introduces a unified multiclass classification framework for detecting ten…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Edward Ajayi , Martha Kachweka , Mawuli Deku , Emily Aiken

Social media data has become a vital resource for studying mental health, offering real-time insights into thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that traditional methods often miss. Progress in this area has been facilitated by benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Saad Mankarious , Ayah Zirikly , Daniel Wiechmann , Elma Kerz , Edward Kempa , Yu Qiao

Internet memes have become a dominant method of communication; at the same time, however, they are also increasingly being used to advocate extremism and foster derogatory beliefs. Nonetheless, we do not have a firm understanding as to…

Depression is one of the most prevalent and debilitating mental health conditions worldwide, frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated. The proliferation of social media platforms provides a rich source of naturalistic linguistic signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Giorgia Gulino , Manuel Petrucci

This paper presents our system employed for the Social Media Mining for Health 2023 Shared Task 4: Binary classification of English Reddit posts self-reporting a social anxiety disorder diagnosis. We systematically investigate and contrast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Sourabh Zanwar , Daniel Wiechmann , Yu Qiao , Elma Kerz

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the uncertainty of human emotional expression and the heterogeneity gap between different modalities. Audio and text modalities are particularly important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss

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

People often utilise online media (e.g., Facebook, Reddit) as a platform to express their psychological distress and seek support. State-of-the-art NLP techniques demonstrate strong potential to automatically detect mental health issues…

In recent years, cognitive and mental health (CMH) disorders have increasingly become an important challenge for global public health, especially the suicide problem caused by multiple factors such as social competition, economic pressure…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shouwen Zheng , Yingzhi Tao , Taiqi Zhou

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

With ubiquity of social media platforms, millions of people are sharing their online persona by expressing their thoughts, moods, emotions, feelings, and even their daily struggles with mental health issues voluntarily and publicly on…

Depression is debilitating, and not uncommon. Indeed, studies of excessive social media users show correlations with depression, ADHD, and other mental health concerns. Given that there is a large number of people with excessive social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Dean Ninalga

Internet memes are a central element of online culture, blending images and text. While substantial research has focused on either the visual or textual components of memes, little attention has been given to their interplay. This gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aidos Konyspay , Pakizar Shamoi , Malika Ziyada , Zhusup Smambayev

Over the past years, memes have evolved from being exclusively a medium of humorous exchanges to one that allows users to express a range of emotions freely and easily. With the ever-growing utilization of memes in expressing depressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Siddhant Agarwal , Adya Dhuler , Polly Ruhnke , Melvin Speisman , Md Shad Akhtar , Shweta Yadav

The detection of depression through non-verbal cues has gained significant attention. Previous research predominantly centred on identifying depression within the confines of controlled laboratory environments, often with the supervision of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Palash Moon , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Depression is a pervasive mental health condition that affects hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide, yet many cases remain undiagnosed due to barriers in traditional clinical access and pervasive stigma. Social media platforms, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Eliseo Bao , Anxo Pérez , Javier Parapar

The prevalence of chronic stress represents a significant public health concern, with social media platforms like Twitter serving as important venues for individuals to share their experiences. This paper introduces StressRoBERTa, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Amal Alqahtani , Efsun Kayi , Mona Diab