@inproceedings{cieslak-sredniawa-2026-leakage,
    title = "Leakage-Aware User-Level {ADHD} Signal Classification from Social Media: When Graph Aggregation Helps, and When It Does Not",
    author = "Cie{\'s}lak, Daniel  and
      {\'S}redniawa, W{\l}adys{\l}aw",
    editor = "T.Y.S.S., Santosh  and
      Rodriguez, Juan Diego  and
      de Gibert, Ona",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics ({ACL} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-srw.47/",
    pages = "527--536",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-393-7",
    abstract = "User-level ADHD-related text classification from social media is methodologically challenging because predictions must aggregate many short posts, performance can be inflated by direct diagnostic leakage, and screening-adjacent settings require calibrated probabilities rather than discrimination alone. We introduce a leakage-aware evaluation framework organized around two controlled axes: evidence budget, i.e., the number of tweets available per user, and leakage control. Within this setup, we compare document-level transformers, strong non-graph embedding-pooling baselines, and heterogeneous graph models combining semantic tweet embeddings, psycholinguistic features, and temporal structure. The main result is regime-dependent: graph aggregation is most useful when user evidence is scarce, whereas simple embedding pooling becomes highly competitive and often slightly stronger as more evidence becomes available. Overall, the main contribution is a controlled benchmarking framework and a clearer account of when graph-based aggregation is actually beneficial."
}