Inverse boosting pruning trees for depression detection on Twitter

06/02/2019
by   Lei Tong, et al.
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Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, and a large number of depression people commit suicide each year. Potential depression sufferers do not consult psychological doctors because they feel ashamed or are unaware of any depression, which may result in severe delay of diagnosis and treatment. In the meantime, evidence shows that social media data provides valuable clues about physical and mental health conditions. In this paper, we argue that it is feasible to identify depression at an early stage by mining online social behaviours. Our approach, which is innovative to the practice of depression detection, does not rely on the extraction of numerous or complicated features to achieve accurate depression detection. Instead, we propose a novel classifier, namely, Inverse Boosting Pruning Trees (IBPT), which demonstrates a strong classification ability on a publicly accessible dataset with 7862 Twitter users. To comprehensively evaluate the classification capability of the IBPT, we use three real datasets from the UCI machine learning repository and the IBPT still obtains the best classification results against several state of the arts techniques. The results manifest that our proposed framework is promising for identifying social networks' users with depression.

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