On the State of Social Media Data for Mental Health Research

Keith Harrigian, Carlos Aguirre, Mark Dredze


Abstract
Data-driven methods for mental health treatment and surveillance have become a major focus in computational science research in the last decade. However, progress in the domain remains bounded by the availability of adequate data. Prior systematic reviews have not necessarily made it possible to measure the degree to which data-related challenges have affected research progress. In this paper, we offer an analysis specifically on the state of social media data that exists for conducting mental health research. We do so by introducing an open-source directory of mental health datasets, annotated using a standardized schema to facilitate meta-analysis.
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2021.clpsych-1.2
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Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access
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June
Year:
2021
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Online
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Nazli Goharian, Philip Resnik, Andrew Yates, Molly Ireland, Kate Niederhoffer, Rebecca Resnik
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CLPsych
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15–24
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.clpsych-1.2
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.clpsych-1.2
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Keith Harrigian, Carlos Aguirre, and Mark Dredze. 2021. On the State of Social Media Data for Mental Health Research. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access, pages 15–24, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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