Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection

Kulkarni, H., MacAvaney, S. , Goharian, N. and Frieder, O. (2023) Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection. In: 7th International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI-23), Washington, DC, USA, 13-14 February 2023, pp. 175-191. ISBN 9783031369384 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36938-4_14)

Abstract

Individuals continue to share their mental health concerns on social media, providing an avenue to rapidly detect those potentially in need of assistance. While users of immediate need can be recognized with relative ease, early-stage disorder users in the boundary region pose a greater challenge to detect. The minimal posting histories of such users further complicate proceedings. However, these same boundary region users would benefit greatly from timely treatment; hence, detecting their mental health status is of utmost need. Additionally, pointers to identify the type of depression could be of great help. Augmenting knowledge for low posting users can help to solve this problem. We propose an NLP based method ‘STBound’ that intelligently determines the optimal region for knowledge augmentation. It answers three crucial questions: when?, for whom? and how much? to augment—to resolve this imbroglio. Our proposed selective knowledge augmentation method contributes to early depression detection performance improvement by an average of 11.9% in F1 score. Further, this approach shows promising performance enhancement of 12.1% in F1 score for the critical task of separating these boundary region users with bipolar depression. STBound identifies those depressed users in the boundary region who would otherwise go unidentified.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: depression detection, social media, mental health, early risk detection.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: MacAvaney, Dr Sean
• Authors: Kulkarni, H., MacAvaney, S., Goharian, N., and Frieder, O.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• ISSN: 1860-9503
• ISBN: 9783031369384
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
• First Published: First published in Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Medicine. W3PHAI 2023. Studies in Computational Intelligence 1106:175-191
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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