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Suicide is a critical issue in modern society. Early detection and prevention of suicide attempts should be addressed to save people's life. Current suicidal ideation detection methods include clinical methods based on the interaction…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shaoxiong Ji , Shirui Pan , Xue Li , Erik Cambria , Guodong Long , Zi Huang

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

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues around the world, proving to be one of the leading causes of suicide and placing large economic burdens on families and society. In this paper, we develop and test the efficacy of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shanya Sharma , Manan Dey

The recent coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has become a pandemic and has affected the entire globe. During the pandemic, we have observed a spike in cases related to mental health, such as anxiety, stress, and depression. Depression…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ashutosh Anshul , Gumpili Sai Pranav , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Nagendra Kumar

Users of social platforms often perceive these sites as supportive spaces to post about their mental health issues. Those conversations contain important traces about individuals' health risks. Recently, researchers have exploited this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Eliseo Bao , Anxo Pérez , Javier Parapar

The early identification and intervention of latent depression are of significant societal importance for mental health governance. While current automated detection methods based on social media have shown progress, their decision-making…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-17 Junwei Kuang , Jiaheng Xie , Zhijun Yan

Mental health conditions remain underdiagnosed even in countries with common access to advanced medical care. The ability to accurately and efficiently predict mood from easily collectible data has several important implications for the…

Major Depressive Disorder and anxiety disorders affect millions globally, contributing significantly to the burden of mental health issues. Early screening is crucial for effective intervention, as timely identification of mental health…

Mental disorders impact the lives of millions of people globally, not only impeding their day-to-day lives but also markedly reducing life expectancy. This paper addresses the persistent challenge of predicting mortality in patients with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Sean Kim , Samuel Kim

This paper describes our participation in the MentalRiskES task at IberLEF 2023. The task involved predicting the likelihood of an individual experiencing depression based on their social media activity. The dataset consisted of…

Previous work has found strong links between the choice of social media images and users' emotions, demographics and personality traits. In this study, we examine which attributes of profile and posted images are associated with depression…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Sharath Chandra Guntuku , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro , Johannes C. Eichstaedt , Lyle H. Ungar

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

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…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anastasia Peshkovskaya , Yu-Tao Xiang

Depressive disorder is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses among the global population. However, traditional screening methods require exacting in-person interviews and may fail to provide immediate interventions. In this work, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Boyu Zhang , Anis Zaman , Rupam Acharyya , Ehsan Hoque , Vincent Silenzio , Henry Kautz

Computational research on mental health disorders from written texts covers an interdisciplinary area between natural language processing and psychology. A crucial aspect of this problem is prevention and early diagnosis, as suicide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-04 Ana-Maria Bucur , Liviu P. Dinu

Social media data has been used for detecting users with mental disorders, such as depression. Despite the global significance of cross-cultural representation and its potential impact on model performance, publicly available datasets often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nuredin Ali , Charles Chuankai Zhang , Ned Mayo , Stevie Chancellor

Social media is a rich source of user behavior and opinions. Twitter senses nearly 500 million tweets per day from 328 million users.An appropriate machine learning pipeline over this information enables up-to-date and cost-effective data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Alan Smith , Manas Gaur

Every day, users generate digital traces (e.g., social media posts, chats, and online interactions) that are inherently timestamped and may reflect aspects of their mental state. These traces can be organized into temporal trajectories that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Loris Belcastro , Francesco Gervino , Fabrizio Marozzo , Domenico Talia , Paolo Trunfio

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

In this paper, we demonstrate how the state-of-the-art machine learning and text mining techniques can be used to build effective social media-based substance use detection systems. Since a substance use ground truth is difficult to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Tao Ding , Warren K. Bickel , Shimei Pan