Abstract

Depression is a serious illness that significantly affects the lives of those affected. Recent studies have looked at the possibility of detecting and diagnosing this mental disorder using user-generated data from various forms of online media. Therefore, we addressed the issue of detecting sadness in social media by focusing on terms in personal remarks. To overcome the limitations in classifying depression texts, this study aims to develop attention networks that use covert levels of self-attention. Since nodes/words can express the properties/emotions of their neighbors, this paper naturally assigns each node in a neighborhood its weight without performing costly matrix operations such as similarity or network architecture knowledge. The paper extended the emotion lexicon by using hypernyms. For this reason, our method is superior to the performance of the other designs. According to the results of our experiments, the emotion lexicon combined with an attention network achieves a ROC of 0.87 while maintaining its interpretability and transparency level. Subsequently, the learned embedding is used to display the contribution of each symptom to the activated word, and the psychiatrist is polled to obtain his qualitative agreement with this representation. By using unlabeled forum language, the method increases the rate at which depression symptoms can be identified from information in Internet forums.

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