Mapping Long-term Causalities in Psychiatric Symptomatology and Life Events from Social Media (2024.naacl-long)
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Siyuan Chen, Meilin Wang, Minghao Lv, Zhiling Zhang, Juqianqian Juqianqian, Dejiyangla Dejiyangla, Yujia Peng, Kenny Zhu, Mengyue Wu
| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on the semantic content of social media posts, overlooking the evolving nature of mental disorders and symptoms. |
| Approach: | They extract causality between psychiatric symptoms and life events from social media posts and extract temporal attributes to improve diagnosis and treatment planning. |
| Outcome: | The extracted causality features improve diagnostic and treatment planning and improve performance in tasks such as depression and diagnosis point detection. |
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