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Affective Conditioning on Hierarchical Networks applied to Depression Detection from Transcribed Clinical Interviews

4 Jun 2020arXiv:2006.08336archive 2025-07-28

D. Xezonaki, G. Paraskevopoulos, A. Potamianos, S. Narayanan

In this work we propose a machine learning model for depression detection from transcribed clinical interviews. Depression is a mental disorder that impacts not only the subject's mood but also the use of language. To this end we use a Hierarchical Attention Network to classify interviews of depressed subjects. We augment the attention layer of our model with a conditioning mechanism on linguistic features, extracted from affective lexica. Our analysis shows that individuals diagnosed with depression use affective language to a greater extent than not-depressed. Our experiments show that external affective information improves the performance of the proposed architecture in the General Psychotherapy Corpus and the DAIC-WoZ 2017 depression datasets, achieving state-of-the-art 71.6 and 68.6 F1 scores respectively.

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