{"id":32879,"date":"2024-04-22T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/language-models-may-miss-signs-of-depression-in-black-peoples-facebook-posts\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:14:09","slug":"language-models-may-miss-signs-of-depression-in-black-peoples-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/language-models-may-miss-signs-of-depression-in-black-peoples-facebook-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Language models may miss signs of depression in Black people\u2019s Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People with depression tend to write and speak about how bad they feel, years of research has shown. But linguistic features linked to depression seem to be absent in Black people\u2019s social media posts<\/a>, researchers report in the April 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe now have over a decade of research [that] has shown how language can be a very powerful indicator of mental health and signs of depression. But one thing we hadn\u2019t understood until this study was how demographic factors \u2026 impact that measurement,\u201d says Munmun De Choudhury, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta who is an expert in using social media data to study mental health. <\/p>\n\n\n