Screening internet forum participants for depression symptoms by assembling and enhancing multiple NLP methods

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-36

  Karmen, Christian ^a   Hsiung, Robert C ^b   Wetter, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Dr Bob LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic screening; Depression; Natural language processing; Social internet communication

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; PROCESSING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AUTOMATIC SCREENING; DEPRESSION; EVALUATION STUDY; INTERNET COMMUNICATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROFESSIONAL HELP; SYMPTOM DETECTIONS; TEXTUAL INFORMATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET FORUM; LIKERT SCALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL MEDIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84928771320     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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