From ADHD to SAD: Analyzing the Language of Mental Health on Twitter through Self-Reported Diagnoses

2nd Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2015 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  Coppersmith, Glen ^a   Dredze, Mark ^b   Harman, Craig ^b   Hollingshead, Kristy ^c  

^a Qntfy   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IHMC

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HEALTH; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONDITION; GENERAL POPULATION; HEALTH CONDITION; HEALTH RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; PROVIDE GUIDANCES; ROADMAP;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85053645046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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