A Survey on Multilingual Mental Disorders Detection from Social Media Data (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on mental disorders focus on English data, overlooking critical signals that may be present in non-English texts. |
| Approach: | They present a list of 108 social media datasets that can be used to train NLP models for mental health screening in 25 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed datasets cover 25 languages and can be used to train models for mental health screening. |
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