Not Just Depressed: Bipolar Disorder Prediction on Reddit

Ivan Sekulic, Matej Gjurković, Jan Šnajder


Abstract
Bipolar disorder, an illness characterized by manic and depressive episodes, affects more than 60 million people worldwide. We present a preliminary study on bipolar disorder prediction from user-generated text on Reddit, which relies on users’ self-reported labels. Our benchmark classifiers for bipolar disorder prediction outperform the baselines and reach accuracy and F1-scores of above 86%. Feature analysis shows interesting differences in language use between users with bipolar disorders and the control group, including differences in the use of emotion-expressive words.
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W18-6211
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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
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October
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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WASSA
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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72–78
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6211
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6211
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Ivan Sekulic, Matej Gjurković, and Jan Šnajder. 2018. Not Just Depressed: Bipolar Disorder Prediction on Reddit. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, pages 72–78, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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