RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses

Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, Nazli Goharian


Abstract
Self-reported diagnosis statements have been widely employed in studying language related to mental health in social media. However, existing research has largely ignored the temporality of mental health diagnoses. In this work, we introduce RSDD-Time: a new dataset of 598 manually annotated self-reported depression diagnosis posts from Reddit that include temporal information about the diagnosis. Annotations include whether a mental health condition is present and how recently the diagnosis happened. Furthermore, we include exact temporal spans that relate to the date of diagnosis. This information is valuable for various computational methods to examine mental health through social media because one’s mental health state is not static. We also test several baseline classification and extraction approaches, which suggest that extracting temporal information from self-reported diagnosis statements is challenging.
Anthology ID:
W18-0618
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, LA
Editors:
Kate Loveys, Kate Niederhoffer, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Rebecca Resnik, Philip Resnik
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CLPsych
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
168–173
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-0618
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-0618
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Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, and Nazli Goharian. 2018. RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, pages 168–173, New Orleans, LA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses (MacAvaney et al., CLPsych 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-0618.pdf
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