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Depression detection in social media is a multidisciplinary area where psychological and psychoanalytical findings can help machine learning and natural language processing techniques to detect symptoms of depression in the users of social media. In this research, using an inventory that has made systematic observations and records of the characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depressed patients, we develop a bipolar feature vector that contains features from both depressed and non-depressed classes. The inventory we use for feature extraction is composed of 21 categories of symptoms and attitudes, which are primarily clinically derived in the course of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of depressed patients, and systematic observations and records of their characteristic attitudes and symptoms. Also, getting insight from a cognitive idea, we develop a classifier based on multinomial Naïve Bayes training algorithm with some modification. The model we develop in this research is successful in classifying the users of social media into depressed and non-depressed groups, achieving the F1 score 82.75%.
This work was done with support of the Government of Mexico via CONACYT, SNI, CONACYT grant A1-S-47854 and grants SIP 20200811, SIP 20200859 of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), IPN-COFAA and IPN-EDI.
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Hosseini-Saravani, S.H., Besharati, S., Calvo, H., Gelbukh, A. (2020). Depression Detection in Social Media Using a Psychoanalytical Technique for Feature Extraction and a Cognitive Based Classifier. In: Martínez-Villaseñor, L., Herrera-Alcántara, O., Ponce, H., Castro-Espinoza, F.A. (eds) Advances in Computational Intelligence. MICAI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12469. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60887-3_25
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