Muhammad Rizwan^1,2, Muhammad Faheem Mushtaq¹, Maryam Rafiq², Arif Mehmood³, Isabel de la Torre Diez⁴, Monica Gracia Villar^5,6,7, Helena Garay^5,8,9, Imran Ashraf^10,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2047-2066, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.037347

Abstract Predicting depression intensity from microblogs and social media posts has numerous benefits and applications, including predicting early psychological disorders and stress in individuals or the general public. A major challenge in predicting depression using social media posts is that the existing studies do not focus on predicting the intensity of depression in social media texts but rather only perform the binary classification of depression and moreover noisy data makes it difficult to predict the true depression in the social media text. This study intends to begin by collecting relevant Tweets and generating a corpus of 210000 public tweets using Twitter… More >

Abdulqader M. Almars^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 3091-3106, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022609

Abstract Depression is a common mental health issue that affects a large percentage of people all around the world. Usually, people who suffer from this mood disorder have issues such as low concentration, dementia, mood swings, and even suicide. A social media platform like Twitter allows people to communicate as well as share photos and videos that reflect their moods. Therefore, the analysis of social media content provides insight into individual moods, including depression. Several studies have been conducted on depression detection in English and less in Arabic. The detection of depression from Arabic social media lags behind due the complexity… More >