Differentiating sub-groups of online depression-related communities using textual cues
Nguyen, Thin, O Dea, Bridianne, Larsen, Mark, Phung, Dinh, Venkatesh, Svetha and Christensen, Helen 2015, Differentiating sub-groups of online depression-related communities using textual cues. In Wang, Jianyong, Cellary, Wojciech, Wang, Dingding, Wang, Hua, Chen, Shu-Ching, Li, Tao and Zhang, Yanchun (ed), Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015, Springer, New York, N.Y., pp.216-224, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-26187-4_17.
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Differentiating sub-groups of online depression-related communities using textual cues
Depression is a highly prevalent mental illness and is a comorbidity of other mental and behavioural disorders. The Internet allows individuals who are depressed or caring for those who are depressed, to connect with others via online communities; however, the characteristics of these online conversations and the language styles of those interested in depression have not yet been fully explored. This work aims to explore the textual cues of online communities interested in depression. A random sample of 5,000 blog posts was crawled. Five groupings were identified: depression, bipolar, self-harm, grief, and suicide. Independent variables included psycholinguistic processes and content topics extracted from the posts. Machine learning techniques were used to discriminate messages posted in the depression sub-group from the others.Good predictive validity in depression classification using topics and psycholinguistic clues as features was found. Clear discrimination between writing styles and content, with good predictive power is an important step in understanding social media and its use in mental health.
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