@inproceedings{ninalga-2023-cordyceps-lt,
    title = "Cordyceps@{LT}-{EDI} : Depression Detection with {R}eddit and Self-training",
    author = "Ninalga, Dean",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi R.  and
      Bharathi, B.  and
      Griffith, Joephine  and
      Bali, Kalika  and
      Buitelaar, Paul",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion",
    month = sep,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Varna, Bulgaria",
    publisher = "INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2023.ltedi-1.29/",
    pages = "192--197",
    abstract = "Depression is debilitating, and not uncommon. Indeed, studies of excessive social media users show correlations with depression, ADHD, and other mental health concerns. Given that there is a large number of people with excessive social media usage, then there is a significant population of potentially undiagnosed users and posts that they create. In this paper, we propose a depression detection system using a semi-supervised learning technique. Namely, we use a trained model to classify a large number of unlabelled social media posts from Reddit, then use these generated labels to train a more powerful classifier. We demonstrate our framework on Detecting Signs of Depression from Social Media Text - LT-EDI@RANLP 2023 shared task, where our framework ranks 3rd overall."
}