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With more than 300 million people depressed worldwide, depression is a global problem. Due to access barriers such as social stigma, cost, and treatment availability, 60% of mentally-ill adults do not receive any mental health services.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Albert Haque , Michelle Guo , Adam S Miner , Li Fei-Fei

In this work, we present the contribution of the BLUE team in the eRisk Lab task on searching for symptoms of depression. The task consists of retrieving and ranking Reddit social media sentences that convey symptoms of depression from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Ana-Maria Bucur

Preliminary detection of mild depression could immensely help in effective treatment of the common mental health disorder. Due to the lack of proper awareness and the ample mix of stigmas and misconceptions present within the society,…

A large number of individuals are suffering from suicidal ideation in the world. There are a number of causes behind why an individual might suffer from suicidal ideation. As the most popular platform for self-expression, emotion release,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lei Cao , Huijun Zhang , Ling Feng

Reddit.com is a popular social media platform among young people. Reddit users share their stories to seek support from other users, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Messages posted on Reddit and their content have provided…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Zihan Chen , Marina Sokolova

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

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-19 Mohammad Reza Yousefi , Hajar Ismail Al-Tamimi , Amin Dehghani

Depression places substantial pressure on mental health services, and many people describe their experiences outside clinical settings in high-volume user-generated text (e.g., online forums and social media). Automatically identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Eliseo Bao , Anxo Perez , David Otero , Javier Parapar

Depression, a prevalent and serious mental health issue, affects approximately 3.8\% of the global population. Despite the existence of effective treatments, over 75\% of individuals in low- and middle-income countries remain untreated,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shengjie Li , Yinhao Xiao

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

Recently, research on mental health conditions using public online data, including Reddit, has surged in NLP and health research but has not reported user characteristics, which are important to judge generalisability of findings. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Glorianna Jagfeld , Fiona Lobban , Paul Rayson , Steven H. Jones

Depression has been a leading cause of mental-health illnesses across the world. While the loss of lives due to unmanaged depression is a subject of attention, so is the lack of diagnostic tests and subjectivity involved. Using behavioural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Shivani Shimpi , Shyam Thombre , Snehal Reddy , Ritik Sharma , Srijan Singh

Depression, a prominent contributor to global disability, affects a substantial portion of the population. Efforts to detect depression from social media texts have been prevalent, yet only a few works explored depression detection from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David Gimeno-Gómez , Ana-Maria Bucur , Adrian Cosma , Carlos-David Martínez-Hinarejos , Paolo Rosso

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

Suicide is a critical global health problem involving more than 700,000 deaths yearly, particularly among young adults. Many people express their suicidal thoughts on social media platforms such as Reddit. This paper evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Khalid Hasan , Jamil Saquer

Depression, a prevalent mental health disorder impacting millions globally, demands reliable assessment systems. Unlike previous studies that focus solely on either detecting depression or predicting its severity, our work identifies…

Depression is a pressing global public health issue, yet publicly available Chinese-language resources for depression risk detection remain scarce and largely focus on binary classification. To address this limitation, we release…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinyuan Xu , Tian Lan , Xintao Yu , Xue He , Hezhi Zhang , Ying Wang , Pierre Magistry , Mathieu Valette , Lei Li

With social media communities increasingly becoming places where suicidal individuals post and congregate, natural language processing presents an exciting avenue for the development of automated suicide risk assessment systems. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Max Lovitt , Haotian Ma , Song Wang , Yifan Peng

In today's fast-paced world, the rates of stress and depression present a surge. Social media provide assistance for the early detection of mental health conditions. Existing methods mainly introduce feature extraction approaches and train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Loukas Ilias , Spiros Mouzakitis , Dimitris Askounis

Depression is a common yet serious mental disorder that affects millions of U.S. high schoolers every year. Still, accurate diagnosis and early detection remain significant challenges. In the field of public health, research shows that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Nathan Zhong , Nikhil Yadav