Language models may miss signs of depression in Black people’s Facebook posts
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 22, 2024
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’s social media posts, researchers report in the April 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“We 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 . . .
