4 papers
Identifying Depressive Symptoms from Tweets: Figurative Language Enabled Multitask Learning Framework
Shweta Yadav, Jainish Chauhan, Joy Prakash Sain +3
Existing studies on using social media for deriving mental health status of users focus on the depression detection task. However, for case management and referral to psychiatrists…
Assessing the Severity of Health States based on Social Media Posts
Shweta Yadav, Joy Prakash Sain, Amit Sheth +3
The unprecedented growth of Internet users has resulted in an abundance of unstructured information on social media including health forums, where patients request health-related i…
Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions
Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Valerie L. Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan +1
Imprecise composite location references formed using ad hoc spatial expressions in English text makes the geocoding task challenging for both inference and evaluation. Typically su…
Leveraging Medical Sentiment to Understand Patients Health on Social Media
Shweta Yadav, Joy Sain, Amit Sheth +3
The unprecedented growth of Internet users in recent years has resulted in an abundance of unstructured information in the form of social media text. A large percentage of this pop…