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Most previous studies on automatic recognition model for bipolar disorder (BD) were based on both social media and linguistic features. The present study investigates the possibility of adopting only language-based features, namely the syntax and morpheme collocation. We also examine the effect of gender on the results considering gender has long been recognized as an important modulating factor for mental disorders, yet it received little attention in previous linguistic models. The present study collects Twitter posts 3 months prior to the self-disclosure by 349 BD users (231 female, 118 male). We construct a set of syntactic patterns in terms of the word usage based on graph pattern construction and pattern attention mechanism. The factors examined are gender differences, syntactic patterns, and bipolar recognition performance. The performance indicates our F1 scores reach over 91% and outperform several baselines, including those using TF-IDF, LIWC and pre-trained language models (ELMO and BERT). The contributions of the present study are: (1) The features are contextualized, domain-agnostic, and purely linguistic. (2) The performance of BD recognition is improved by gender-enriched linguistic pattern features, which are constructed with gender differences in language usage., Comment: Accepted by DSHealth '19: 2019 KDD Workshop on Applied Data Science for Healthcare

We propose a graph-based mechanism to extract rich-emotion bearing patterns, which fosters a deeper analysis of online emotional expressions, from a corpus. The patterns are then enriched with word embeddings and evaluated through several emotion recognition tasks. Moreover, we conduct analysis on the emotion-oriented patterns to demonstrate its applicability and to explore its properties. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed techniques outperform most state-of-the-art emotion recognition techniques.

Seven out of ten people with bipolar disorder are initially misdiagnosed and thirty percent of individuals with bipolar disorder will commit suicide. Identifying the early phases of the disorder is one of the key components for reducing the full development of the disorder. In this study, we aim at leveraging the data from social media to design predictive models, which utilize the psychological and phonological features, to determine the onset period of bipolar disorder and provide insights on its prodrome. This study makes these discoveries possible by employing a novel data collection process, coined as Time-specific Subconscious Crowdsourcing, which helps collect a reliable dataset that supplements diagnosis information from people suffering from bipolar disorder. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed models could greatly contribute to the regular assessments of people with bipolar disorder, which is important in the primary care setting.