Detecting mental disorder on social media: a ChatGPT-augmented explainable approach

In the digital era, the prevalence of depressive symptoms expressed on social media has raised serious concerns, necessitating advanced methodologies for timely detection. This paper addresses the challenge of interpretable depression detection by proposing a novel methodology that effectively combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT. In our methodology, explanations are achieved by integrating BERTweet, a Twitter-specific variant of BERT, into a novel self-explanatory model, namely BERT-XDD, capable of providing both classification …

advanced artificial artificial intelligence challenge chatgpt concerns cs.ai cs.cl cs.lg cs.si depression detection digital explainable artificial intelligence intelligence language language models large language large language models llms media methodology novel paper social social media xai