SSN_MLRG3 @LT-EDI-ACL2022-Depression Detection System from Social Media Text using Transformer Models

Abstract

Depression is a common mental illness that involves sadness and lack of interest in all day-to-day activities.The task is to classify the social media text as signs of depression into three labels namely “not depressed”, “moderately depressed”, and “severely depressed”. We have built a system using Deep Learning Model "Transformers". Transformers provides thousands of pretrained models to perform tasks on different modalities such as text, vision, and audio. The multi-class classification model used in our system is based on the ALBERT model(Lan et al., 2019). In the shared task ACL 2022, Our team SSN_MLRG3 obtained a Macro F1 score of 0.473.