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Detection of Postpartum Depression-Related Posts: An Analysis for Serbian

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Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV (IDC 2021)

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This paper presents a model of an intelligent distributed support system for pregnant women and mothers with an emphasis on the detection of postpartum depression. There are psychological tests that can be used to determine the degree of postpartum depression, but it is very important to detect the existence of this depression in women who are not aware of it. A lot of women use social networks to share information about their problems. Using tools for natural language processing and machine learning, social network posts that describing problems similar to postpartum depression can be detected. The presented system was tested on a data set of posts from two social media forums (one Serbian and one English). It has been shown that posts indicating postpartum depression can be labeled with an accuracy of up to 89%. This system aims to identify the potential existence of problems and refer to the system for detection and professional assistance. It can contribute to improving the lives of mothers and thus babies.

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This paper is partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia under project III44007.

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  1. Department for Technical Sciences, State University of Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar, Serbia

    Ulfeta Marovac & Aldina Avdić

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  1. Computer Systems Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    David Camacho

  2. DIIES Department, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Domenico Rosaci

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe M. L. Sarné

  4. DICEAM Department, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Mario Versaci

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Marovac, U., Avdić, A. (2022). Detection of Postpartum Depression-Related Posts: An Analysis for Serbian. In: Camacho, D., Rosaci, D., Sarné, G.M.L., Versaci, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV. IDC 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96627-0_34

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