Depression Detection in Social Media Using a Psychoanalytical Technique for Feature Extraction and a Cognitive Based Classifier

Seyed Habib Hosseini-Saravani, Sara Besharati, Hiram Calvo, Alexander Gelbukh

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Abstract

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%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Computational Intelligence - 19th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2020, Proceedings
EditorsLourdes Martínez-Villaseñor, Hiram Ponce, Oscar Herrera-Alcántara, Félix A. Castro-Espinoza
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages282-292
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030608866
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event19th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2020 - Mexico City, Mexico
Duration: 12 Oct 202017 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12469 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2020
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityMexico City
Period12/10/2017/10/20

Keywords

  • Depression detection
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Naïve Bayes
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Rational Speech Act
  • Social media

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