Abstract:Psychological states unfold dynamically; to understand and measure mental health at scale we need to detect and measure these changes from sequences of online posts. We evaluate two approaches to capturing psychological changes in text: the first relies on computing the difference between the embedding of a message with the one that precedes it, the second relies on a "human-aware" multi-level recurrent transformer (HaRT). The mood changes of timeline posts of users were annotated into three classes, 'ordinary… Show more
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