ESDM: Early Sensing Depression Model in Social Media Streams

Bichen Wang, Yuzhe Zi, Yanyan Zhao, Pengfei Deng, Bing Qin


Abstract
Depression impacts millions worldwide, with increasing efforts to use social media data for early detection and intervention. Traditional Risk Detection (TRD) uses a user’s complete posting history for predictions, while Early Risk Detection (ERD) seeks early detection in a user’s posting history, emphasizing the importance of prediction earliness. However, ERD remains relatively underexplored due to challenges in balancing accuracy and earliness, especially with evolving partial data. To address this, we introduce the Early Sensing Depression Model (ESDM), which comprises two modules classification with partial information module (CPI) and decision for classification moment module (DMC), alongside an early detection loss function. Experiments show ESDM outperforms benchmarks in both earliness and accuracy.
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2024.lrec-main.556
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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6288–6298
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Bichen Wang, Yuzhe Zi, Yanyan Zhao, Pengfei Deng, and Bing Qin. 2024. ESDM: Early Sensing Depression Model in Social Media Streams. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 6288–6298, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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