An Annotated Dataset for Explainable Interpersonal Risk Factors of Mental Disturbance in Social Media Posts
This provides a resource for the social NLP research community to develop explainable AI models for personalized mental healthcare, though it is incremental as it focuses on dataset creation.
The authors tackled the lack of datasets for studying interpersonal risk factors (IRF) in mental health from social media by constructing and releasing a new annotated dataset with human-labelled explanations and classifications for Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness, establishing baseline models to facilitate future research.
With a surge in identifying suicidal risk and its severity in social media posts, we argue that a more consequential and explainable research is required for optimal impact on clinical psychology practice and personalized mental healthcare. The success of computational intelligence techniques for inferring mental illness from social media resources, points to natural language processing as a lens for determining Interpersonal Risk Factors (IRF) in human writings. Motivated with limited availability of datasets for social NLP research community, we construct and release a new annotated dataset with human-labelled explanations and classification of IRF affecting mental disturbance on social media: (i) Thwarted Belongingness (TBe), and (ii) Perceived Burdensomeness (PBu). We establish baseline models on our dataset facilitating future research directions to develop real-time personalized AI models by detecting patterns of TBe and PBu in emotional spectrum of user's historical social media profile.