Title
Cross-Domain Depression Detection via Harvesting Social Media.
Abstract
Depression detection is a significant issue for human well-being. In previous studies, online detection has proven effective in Twitter, enabling proactive care for depressed users. Owing to cultural differences, replicating the method to other social media platforms, such as Chinese Weibo, however, might lead to poor performance because of insufficient available labeled (self-reported depression) data for model training. In this paper, we study an interesting but challenging problem of enhancing detection in a certain target domain (e.g. Weibo) with ample Twitter data as the source domain. We first systematically analyze the depression-related feature patterns across domains and summarize two major detection challenges, namely isomerism and divergency. We further propose a cross-domain Deep Neural Network model with Feature Adaptive Transformation u0026 Combination strategy (DNN-FATC) that transfers the relevant information across heterogeneous domains. Experiments demonstrate improved performance compared to existing heterogeneous transfer methods or training directly in the target domain (over 3.4% improvement in F1), indicating the potential of our model to enable depression detection via social media for more countries with different cultural settings.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Social media,Computer science,Cultural diversity,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
tiancheng shen111.05
Jia Jia245155.08
Guangyao Shen3293.59
Fuli Feng449533.75
Xiangnan He53064128.86
Huanbo Luan686145.39
Jie Tang75871300.22
Thanassis Tiropanis819637.49
Tat-Seng Chua911749653.09
Wendy Hall102758316.21