通过数字痕迹分析抑郁状态变化,自动识别关键转折点并生成可解释报告。
Explainable Detection of Depression Status Shifts from User Digital Traces
- 融合多个BERT模型提取情感、情绪等多维度信号
- 构建用户时间轨迹,准确识别抑郁状态转变点
- 用大模型生成清晰报告,适合心理健康研究者使用
用户每天生成的数字痕迹(如社交媒体发帖、聊天记录)具有时间戳,可能反映其心理状态。这些痕迹可组织为时间轨迹,捕捉心理健康的演变过程,包括改善、恶化或稳定阶段。本文提出一个可解释的框架,用于检测和分析用户数字痕迹中的抑郁状态变化。该方法结合多个基于BERT的模型,从不同维度(如情感、情绪、抑郁严重程度)提取互补信号,并在时间上聚合形成用户级轨迹,进而识别有意义的变化点。为提升可解释性,框架引入大语言模型,生成简洁且人类可读的报告,描述心理信号演变并突出关键转变。在两个社交媒体数据集上评估表明,该方法生成的摘要比直接使用大模型更连贯、信息量更大,覆盖用户历史更全面,时间一致性更强,对变化点敏感度更高。消融实验证实了时间建模和分段的重要性。整体方法提供了一种可解释的心理健康信号动态视图,支持研究与决策,但不旨在进行临床诊断。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Every day, users generate digital traces (e.g., social media posts, chats, and online interactions) that are inherently timestamped and may reflect aspects of their mental state. These traces can be organized into temporal trajectories that capture how a user's mental health signals evolve, including phases of improvement, deterioration, or stability. In this work, we propose an explainable framework for detecting and analyzing depression-related status shifts in user digital traces. The approach combines multiple BERT-based models to extract complementary signals across different dimensions (e.g., sentiment, emotion, and depression severity). Such signals are then aggregated over time to construct user-level trajectories that are analyzed to identify meaningful change points. To enhance interpretability, the framework integrates a large language model to generate concise and human-readable reports that describe the evolution of mental-health signals and highlight key transitions. We evaluate the framework on two social media datasets. Results show that the approach produces more coherent and informative summaries than direct LLM-based reporting, achieving higher coverage of user history, stronger temporal coherence, and improved sensitivity to change points. An ablation study confirms the contribution of each component, particularly temporal modeling and segmentation. Overall, the method provides an interpretable view of mental health signals over time, supporting research and decision making without aiming at clinical diagnosis.
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