scholarly journals A Decision Support System for Predicting Socially Depressed Users Using Bidirectional Encoders Representations from Transformers (BERT)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maharukh Syed ◽  
◽  
Meera Narvekar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Support System ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
Processing Techniques

Depression is one of the leading causes of suicides in society. The youth of the 21st century are inclined towards social media for all their needs and expressions. Close friends can easily predict if someone is happy, sad, or depressed from a user’s daily social media activity like status uploads/shares/reposts/check-ins, etc. This activity can be analyzed in order to understand the pattern of mental health. Such data is easily available and if suspected, it can be reported to a Psychiatrist and Psychologist to prevent socially active depressed patients from taking any wrong decisions regarding their life thus providing a Decision Support System (DSS). Various natural language processing techniques have been used in order to detect depression but there is a need for a unified architecture that is based on contextual data and is bidirectional in nature. This can be achieved by using example be achieved by using the Google research project (BERT) Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers.

scholarly journals An Exploration of Impact of COVID 19 on mental health -Analysis of tweets using Natural Language Processing techniques

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohini Sengupta ◽  
Sareeta Mugde ◽  
Garima Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Gold Mine ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Processing Techniques

Twitter is one of the world's biggest social media platforms for hosting abundant number of user-generated posts. It is considered as a gold mine of data. Majority of the tweets are public and thereby pullable unlike other social media platforms. In this paper we are analyzing the topics related to mental health that are recently (June, 2020) been discussed on Twitter. Also amidst the on-going pandemic, we are going to find out if covid-19 emerges as one of the factors impacting mental health. Further we are going to do an overall sentiment analysis to better understand the emotions of users.

scholarly journals Information retrieval with text mining for Decision Support System

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmuda Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Support System

Key words: Natural language processing; C4.5 classification; DSS, machine learning; KNN clustering; SVMDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjsr.v24i2.10768 Bangladesh J. Sci. Res. 24(2):117-126, 2011 (December) 

Using Natural Language Processing to Assess the Psychological Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Insomnia via Tweets: A Pre-Post Retrospective Pilot Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Maghsoudi ◽  
Sara Nowakowski ◽  
Ritwick Agrawal ◽  
Amir Sharafkhaneh ◽  
Sadaf Aram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Additional Stress ◽  
Mental Health Condition ◽  
Twitter Users

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed additional stress on population health that may result in a higher incidence of insomnia. In this study, we hypothesized that using natural language processing (NLP) to explore social media would help to identify the mental health condition of the population experiencing insomnia after the outbreak of COVID-19. OBJECTIVE In this study, we hypothesized that using natural language processing (NLP) to explore social media would help to identify the mental health condition of the population experiencing insomnia after the outbreak of COVID-19. METHODS We designed a pre-post retrospective study using public social media content from Twitter. We categorized tweets based on time into two intervals: prepandemic (01/01/2019 to 01/01/2020) and pandemic (01/01/2020 to 01/01/2021). We used NLP to analyze polarity (positive/negative) and intensity of emotions and also users’ tweets psychological states in terms of sadness, anxiety and anger by counting the words related to these categories in each tweet. Additionally, we performed temporal analysis to examine the effect of time on the users’ insomnia experience. RESULTS We extracted 268,803 tweets containing the word insomnia (prepandemic, 123,293 and pandemic, 145,510). The odds of negative tweets (OR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.29-1.33), anger (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.16-1.21), and anxiety (OR, 1.24; 95% CI: 1.21-1.26) were higher during the pandemic compared to prepandemic. The likelihood of negative tweets after midnight was higher than for other daily intevals, comprising approximately 60% of all negative insomnia-related tweets in 2020 and 2021 collectively. CONCLUSIONS Twitter users shared more negative tweets about insomnia during the pandemic than during the year before. Also, more anger and anxiety-related content were disseminated during the pandemic on the social media platform. Future studies using an NLP framework could assess tweets about other psychological distress, habit changes, weight gain due to inactivity, and the effect of viral infection on sleep.

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