Andreea Moldovan


2025

Depression is the most common mental health disorder, and its prevalence increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. As one of the most extensively researched psychological conditions, recent research has increasingly focused on leveraging social media data to enhance traditional methods of depression screening. This paper addresses the growing interest in interdisciplinary research on depression, and aims to support early-career researchers by providing a comprehensive and up-to-date list of datasets for analyzing and predicting depression through social media data. We present an overview of datasets published between 2019 and 2024. We also make the comprehensive list of datasets available online as a continuously updated resource, with the hope that it will facilitate further interdisciplinary research into the linguistic expressions of depression on social media.

2022

Romania ranks almost last in Europe when it comes to gender equality in political representation, with about 10% fewer women in politics than the E.U. average. We proceed from the assumption that this underrepresentation is also influenced by the sexism and verbal abuse female politicians face in the public sphere, especially in online media. We collect a novel dataset with sexist comments in Romanian language from newspaper articles about Romanian female politicians and propose baseline models using classical machine learning models and fine-tuned pretrained transformer models for the classification of sexist language in the online medium.