A Computational Linguistic Study of Personal Recovery in Bipolar Disorder (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | Mental health research can benefit from computational linguistics methods given the abundant availability of language data in the internet and advances in computational tools. |
| Approach: | They will collect and analyse social media data of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder with regard to their recovery experiences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method will analyse first-person accounts shared online in large quantities representing unstructured settings and a more heterogeneous, multilingual population to draw a better picture of the aspects and mechanisms of recovery in bipolar disorder. |
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