Not Just Depressed: Bipolar Disorder Prediction on Reddit

11/12/2018

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by   Ivan Sekulić, et al.

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Bipolar disorder, an illness characterized by manic and depressive episodes, affects more than 60 million people worldwide. We present a preliminary study on bipolar disorder prediction from user-generated text on Reddit, which relies on users' self-reported labels. Our benchmark classifiers for bipolar disorder prediction outperform the baselines and reach accuracy and F1-scores of above 86 users with bipolar disorders and the control group, including differences in the use of emotion-expressive words.