Vaishnavi Vaishnavi S


2023

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The Mavericks@LT-EDI-2023: Detection of signs of Depression from social Media Texts using Navie Bayse approach
Sathvika V S | Vaishnavi Vaishnavi S | Angel Deborah S | Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah | Mirnalinee ThankaNadar
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Social media platforms have revolutionized the landscape of communication, providing individuals with an outlet to express their thoughts, emotions, and experiences openly. This paper focuses on the development of a model to determine whether individuals exhibit signs of depression based on their social media texts. With the aim of optimizing performance and accuracy, a Naive Bayes approach was chosen for the detection task.The Naive Bayes algorithm, a probabilistic classifier, was applied to extract features and classify the texts. The model leveraged linguistic patterns, sentiment analysis, and other relevant features to capture indicators of depression within the texts. Preprocessing techniques, including tokenization, stemming, and stop-word removal, were employed to enhance the quality of the input data.The performance of the Naive Bayes model was evaluated using standard metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, it acheived a macro- avergaed F1 score of 0.263.