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Approach: They propose to annotate a social media corpus of symptom classes related to 7 mental disorders using a knowledge graph and a new annotation framework to facilitate further research.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms strong pure-text baselines and provides convincing MDD explanations with case studies.

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