A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu

Depression is a highly complex and frequently unnoticed mental condition that presents substantial hazards to a person’s well-being. Many people use social media as a means of conveying their emotions in the digital age, creating a potential avenue for depression assessment through these...

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Main Authors: Ruba Mohmand, Usman Habib, Muhammad Usman, Jamel Baili, Yunyoung Nam
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
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description Depression is a highly complex and frequently unnoticed mental condition that presents substantial hazards to a person’s well-being. Many people use social media as a means of conveying their emotions in the digital age, creating a potential avenue for depression assessment through these platforms. While English has seen extensive research on depression identification, other languages, like Roman Urdu, which is widely used in South Asia, have received less investigation. The lack of a standardized textual structure in Roman Urdu presents a challenge in evaluating depression levels. Moreover, there is currently no corpus available to assess the severity of depression in Roman Urdu. This is a notable deficiency considering the significance of linguistic resources for tasks involving natural language processing. This study fills this gap by manually categorizing an extensive collection of 25,004 Roman Urdu posts from X(Twitter) into four classes: mild, moderate, severe, and non-depression. Using a pre-trained BERT model with transfer learning, the study achieves a remarkable accuracy rate of 99%, surpassing the performance of other deep models. The findings underscore the capacity of sophisticated natural language processing methods to precisely evaluate the intensity of depression in Roman Urdu text, thereby facilitating more comprehensive mental health assessments.
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spelling doaj-art-8f4d3875fb9b40f8a2478f59eae4a8d42024-12-27T00:01:04ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011219338719340110.1109/ACCESS.2024.351926410804764A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman UrduRuba Mohmand0https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6039-7499Usman Habib1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4793-6239Muhammad Usman2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0368-5039Jamel Baili3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-6114Yunyoung Nam4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3318-9394School of Computing, FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad Campus, Islamabad, PakistanSchool of Computing, FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad Campus, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Computing, Khanpur Institute of Technology, Khanpur, PakistanDepartment of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaEmotional and Intelligence Child Care System Convergence Research Center, Soonchunhyang University, Asan-si, South KoreaDepression is a highly complex and frequently unnoticed mental condition that presents substantial hazards to a person’s well-being. Many people use social media as a means of conveying their emotions in the digital age, creating a potential avenue for depression assessment through these platforms. While English has seen extensive research on depression identification, other languages, like Roman Urdu, which is widely used in South Asia, have received less investigation. The lack of a standardized textual structure in Roman Urdu presents a challenge in evaluating depression levels. Moreover, there is currently no corpus available to assess the severity of depression in Roman Urdu. This is a notable deficiency considering the significance of linguistic resources for tasks involving natural language processing. This study fills this gap by manually categorizing an extensive collection of 25,004 Roman Urdu posts from X(Twitter) into four classes: mild, moderate, severe, and non-depression. Using a pre-trained BERT model with transfer learning, the study achieves a remarkable accuracy rate of 99%, surpassing the performance of other deep models. The findings underscore the capacity of sophisticated natural language processing methods to precisely evaluate the intensity of depression in Roman Urdu text, thereby facilitating more comprehensive mental health assessments.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10804764/Sentiment analysisdeep learningtransfer learninghealth caretext classification
spellingShingle Ruba Mohmand
Usman Habib
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Yunyoung Nam
A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu
IEEE Access
Sentiment analysis
deep learning
transfer learning
health care
text classification
title A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu
title_full A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu
title_fullStr A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu
title_full_unstemmed A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu
title_short A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Depression Assessment Using Roman Urdu
title_sort deep learning approach for automated depression assessment using roman urdu
topic Sentiment analysis
deep learning
transfer learning
health care
text classification
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10804764/
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