Generating a Mental Health Curve for Monitoring Depression in Real Time by Incorporating Multimodal Feature Analysis Through Social Media Interactions

Moumita Chatterjee, Piyush Kumar and Dhrubasish Sarkar
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Moumita Chatterjee: Aliah University, India
Piyush Kumar: Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India
Dhrubasish Sarkar: Supreme Institute of Management and Technology, India

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT), 2023, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in depression cases worldwide. Several people are utilizing social media to share their depression or suicidal thoughts. Thus, the major goal of the proposed study is to examine Twitter posts by users and identify features that may indicate depressed symptoms among online users. A numerical metric for each user is proposed based on the sentiment value of their tweets, and it is demonstrated that this feature can detect depression with good accuracy by using several machine learning classifiers. The paper proposes a novel method for measuring the mental health index of an individual by combining the sentiment score with multimodal features extracted from his online activities. A real-time curve is generated using this index that can monitor a person's mental health in real time and offer real-time information about his state. The proposed model shows an accuracy of 89% using SVM, and proper feature selection is very essential for obtaining good performance.

Date: 2023
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