Analyzing depression tendency of web posts using an event-driven depression tendency warning model.

Journal: Artificial intelligence in medicine
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The Internet has become a platform to express individual moods/feelings of daily life, where authors share their thoughts in web blogs, micro-blogs, forums, bulletin board systems or other media. In this work, we investigate text-mining technology to analyze and predict the depression tendency of web posts.

Authors

  • Chiaming Tung
    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan, ROC. Electronic address: p7897127@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
  • Wenhsiang Lu
    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan, ROC. Electronic address: whlu@mail.ncku.edu.tw.