Multiple-Choice Question Answering Models for Automatic Depression Severity Estimation

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چکیده

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health diseases. Although there are effective treatments, main problem relies on providing early and risk detection. Medical experts use self-reporting questionnaires to elaborate their diagnosis, but these have some limitations. Social stigmas lack awareness often negatively affect success self-report questionnaires. This article aims describe techniques automatically estimate depression severity from users social media. We explored pre-trained language models over subject’s writings. addressed task “Measuring Severity Signs Depression” eRisk 2020, an initiative in CLEF Conference. In this task, participants fill Beck Questionnaire (BDI-II). Our proposal explores application Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) predict user’s answers BDI-II questionnaire using posts These MCQA built BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations Transformers) architecture. results showed that multiple-choice question answering could be a suitable alternative for estimating degree, even when small amounts training data available (20 users).

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Engineering proceedings

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2673-4591']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2021007023