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PsyProf: A Platform for Assisted Screening of Depression in Social Media

Authors:

Paloma Piot-Pérez-Abadín,

Javier Parapar,

Álvaro BarreiroAuthors Info & Claims

Advances in Information Retrieval: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2–6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III

Pages 300 - 306

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_30

Published: 02 April 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders. For its effective treatment, patients need a quick and accurate diagnosis. Mental health professionals use self-report questionnaires to serve that purpose. These standardized questionnaires consider different depression symptoms in their evaluations. However, mental health stigmas heavily influence patients when filling out a questionnaire. In contrast, many people feel more at ease discussing their mental health issues on social media. This demo paper presents a platform for assisted examination and tracking of symptoms of depression for social media users. In order to bring a broader context, we have complemented our tool with user profiling. We show a platform that helps professionals with data labelling, relying on depression estimators and profiling models.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_12

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Advances in Information Retrieval: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2–6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III

Apr 2023

634 pages

ISBN:978-3-031-28240-9

DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6

Editors:
Jaap Kamps
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lorraine Goeuriot
Université Grenoble-Alpes, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France
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Fabio Crestani
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
,
Maria Maistro
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hideo Joho
University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
,
Brian Davis
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
,
Cathal Gurrin
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
,
Udo Kruschwitz
Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
,
Annalina Caputo
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Gimeno-Gómez DBucur ACosma AMartínez-Hinarejos CRosso P(2024)Reading Between the Frames: Multi-modal Depression Detection in Videos from Non-verbal CuesAdvances in Information Retrieval10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_12(191-209)Online publication date: 24-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_12

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