MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media

Bingrui Jin, Baihan Li, Zitong Li, Shimeng Li, Kunyao Lan, Kenny Q. Zhu, Mengyue Wu


Abstract
Mental health research on social media has been dominated by English-language datasets and DSM-5-centered resources, limiting cross-lingual and cross-cultural understanding of online mental health expression. We introduce MATCHA, the first Chinese multi-disorder mental health dataset that links disorder-specific Weibo Super-Topic communities with users’ broader public timelines. MATCHA covers seven DSM-5 disorders and a control group, comprising 46,025 cohort-level users and 1.8 million posts. The dataset distinguishes users with explicit self-disclosure evidence from broader disorder-related participants through an LLM-assisted annotation pipeline, and is released in a rigorously de-identified, controlled-access format. Using MATCHA, we analyze behavioral, linguistic, symptom-related, and life-event-related patterns across disorders, and conduct cross-lingual comparisons with Twitter-STMHD. Our analyses show that Weibo Super-Topics function as concentrated spaces for affective and health-related expression, while cross-platform differences between Weibo and Twitter often exceed cross-disorder variation. MATCHA provides a new resource for community-aware and cross-lingual mental health NLP research.
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2026.findings-emnlp.2267
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hung-Yi Lee, Sunipa Dev, Jessy Li, Desmond Elliott
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.2267
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Bingrui Jin, Baihan Li, Zitong Li, Shimeng Li, Kunyao Lan, Kenny Q. Zhu, and Mengyue Wu. 2026. MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, pages 48536–48553, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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