SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions

Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian


Abstract
Mental health is a significant and growing public health concern. As language usage can be leveraged to obtain crucial insights into mental health conditions, there is a need for large-scale, labeled, mental health-related datasets of users who have been diagnosed with one or more of such conditions. In this paper, we investigate the creation of high-precision patterns to identify self-reported diagnoses of nine different mental health conditions, and obtain high-quality labeled data without the need for manual labelling. We introduce the SMHD (Self-reported Mental Health Diagnoses) dataset and make it available. SMHD is a novel large dataset of social media posts from users with one or multiple mental health conditions along with matched control users. We examine distinctions in users’ language, as measured by linguistic and psychological variables. We further explore text classification methods to identify individuals with mental conditions through their language.
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C18-1126
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1485–1497
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https://aclanthology.org/C18-1126
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Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney, and Nazli Goharian. 2018. SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1485–1497, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions (Cohan et al., COLING 2018)
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