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Mental disorders such as depression and suicidal ideation are hazardous, affecting more than 300 million people over the world. However, on social media, mental disorder symptoms can be observed, and automated approaches are increasingly…

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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…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that approximately 1.4 million individuals worldwide died by suicide in 2022. This figure indicates that one person died by suicide every 20 s during the year. Globally, suicide is the…

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Suicide rates have risen worldwide in recent years, underscoring the urgent need for proactive prevention strategies. Social media provides valuable signals, as many at-risk individuals - who often avoid formal help due to stigma - choose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yukai Song , Pengfei Zhou , César Escobar-Viera , Candice Biernesser , Wei Huang , Jingtong Hu

It is a challenging and complex task to acquire information from different regions of a disaster-affected area in a timely fashion. The extensive spread and reach of social media and networks allow people to share information in real-time.…

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Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have facilitated the spread of misinformation, necessitating automated detection systems. This systematic review evaluates 36 studies that apply machine learning (ML) and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yunchong Liu , Xiaorui Shen , Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Yuchen Cao

In recent times, more and more people are posting about their mental states across various social media platforms. Leveraging this data, AI-based systems can be developed that help in assessing the mental health of individuals, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Chayan Tank , Shaina Mehta , Sarthak Pol , Vinayak Katoch , Avinash Anand , Raj Jaiswal , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Social media platforms have become important sources for identifying suicide risk, but automated detection systems face multiple challenges including severe class imbalance, temporal complexity in posting patterns, and the dual nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Chang Yang , Ziyi Wang , Wangfeng Tan , Zhiting Tan , Changrui Ji , Zhiming Zhou

Online hate speech is an important issue that breaks the cohesiveness of online social communities and even raises public safety concerns in our societies. Motivated by this rising issue, researchers have developed many traditional machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rui Cao , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Tuan-Anh Hoang

Suicidal ideation is a serious health problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Social networks provide information about these mental health problems through users' emotional expressions. We propose a multilingual model leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Rodolfo Zevallos , Annika Schoene , John E. Ortega

This paper employs deep learning in detecting the traffic accident from social media data. First, we thoroughly investigate the 1-year over 3 million tweet contents in two metropolitan areas: Northern Virginia and New York City. Our results…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Zhenhua Zhang , Qing Heb , Jing Gao , Ming Ni

In the light of increasing clues on social media impact on self-harm and suicide risks, there is still no evidence on who are and how factually engaged in suicide-related online behaviors. This study reports new findings of high-performance…

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Disaster analysis in social media content is one of the interesting research domains having abundance of data. However, there is a lack of labeled data that can be used to train machine learning models for disaster analysis applications.…

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Social Media has influenced the way people socially connect, interact and opinionize. The growth in technology has enhanced communication and dissemination of information. Unfortunately,many terror groups like jihadist communities have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Armaan Kaur , Jaspal Kaur Saini , Divya Bansal

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

Harassment by cyberbullies is a significant phenomenon on the social media. Existing works for cyberbullying detection have at least one of the following three bottlenecks. First, they target only one particular social media platform (SMP).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Sweta Agrawal , Amit Awekar

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S (1999-2019). However, predicting when someone will attempt suicide has been nearly impossible. In the modern world, many individuals suffering from mental illness seek emotional support…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Manas Gaur , Vamsi Aribandi , Amanuel Alambo , Ugur Kursuncu , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Jonanthan Beich , Jyotishman Pathak , Amit Sheth

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

Multimedia content in social media platforms provides significant information during disaster events. The types of information shared include reports of injured or deceased people, infrastructure damage, and missing or found people, among…

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