Enhanced Labeling Technique for Reddit Text and Fine-Tuned Longformer Models for Classifying Depression Severity in English and Luganda

This research uses text from Reddit and a proposed labeling approach to facilitate the diagnosis of depression severity. The Longformer model is fine-tuned and its performance compared against baseline models such as Naive Bayes, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, and Gradient Boosting. The study finds that the Longformer model performs better in both English and Luganda languages, outperforming the baseline models by 48% and 45% respectively.

Publication date: 26 Jan 2024
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.14240