What to Fuse and How to Fuse: Exploring Emotion and Personality Fusion Strategies for Explainable Mental Disorder Detection (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Mental health disorders (MHD) are one of the greatest challenges facing our healthcare systems and modern societies in general. |
| Approach: | They integrate and extend the research by conducting extensive experiments with three types of deep learning-based fusion strategies: feature-level fusion, model fusion and task fusion. |
| Outcome: | The proposed techniques show that they can be used to improve mental health detection from textual data. |
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