Papers by Kasun Gunawardana
EmoMent: An Emotion Annotated Mental Health Corpus from Two South Asian Countries (2022.coling-1)
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Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Charitha Elvitigala, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Kasun Gunawardana, Menasha Thilakaratne, Kasun de Zoysa, Katrina Falkner
| Challenge: | Recent research using AI and NLP demonstrates strong potential to automatically detect mental health issues from digital footprints such that professionals could provide timely interventions and mental health resources to vulnerable persons. |
| Approach: | They developed an emotion-annotated mental health corpus from 2802 Facebook posts extracted from two South Asian countries, Sri Lanka and India. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieved 98.3% agreement between the annotators and a Fleiss’ Kappa of 0.82. |