Papers by Minghao Lv
Tracking Life’s Ups and Downs: Mining Life Events from Social Media Posts for Mental Health Analysis (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have indicated that major life events can greatly impact individuals’ mental health, but shedding its light on social media data is challenging due to the complexity and ambiguity nature of life events. |
| Approach: | They propose to extract life events mentioned in posts on social media to uncover a social media event dataset which includes 12 major life event categories that are likely to occur in everyday life. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes 12 life event categories that are likely to occur in everyday life and is human-annotated under iterative procedure and boasts a high level of quality. |
Open-Domain Targeted Sentiment Analysis via Span-Based Extraction and Classification (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to target sentiment analysis are limited by huge search space and sentiment inconsistency. |
| Approach: | They propose a span-based extract-then-classify framework to detect opinion targets . they propose pipeline, joint, and collapsed models to classify polarities . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the sequence tagging baseline on three benchmark datasets. |
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. |