TY - JOUR T1 - Multimodal mental health analysis in social media JF - PLoS ONE Y1 - 2020 A1 - Amir Hossein Yazdavar A1 - Mohammad Saeid Mahdavinejad A1 - Goonmeet Baja A1 - William Romine A1 - Amit Sheth A1 - Amir Hassan Monadjemi A1 - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan A1 - John M. Meddar A1 - Annie Myers A1 - Jyotishman Pathak A1 - Pascal Hitzler KW - Explainable Machine Learning KW - Hypothesis Testing KW - National Language Processing KW - Prediction KW - Regression AB -

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Depression is a major public health concern in the U.S. and globally. While successful early

identification and treatment can lead to many positive health and behavioral outcomes,

depression, remains undiagnosed, untreated or undertreated due to several reasons,

including denial of the illness as well as cultural and social stigma. With the ubiquity of social

media platforms, millions of people are now sharing their online persona by expressing their

thoughts, moods, emotions, and even their daily struggles with mental health on social

media. Unlike traditional observational cohort studies conducted through questionnaires

and self-reported surveys, we explore the reliable detection of depressive symptoms from

tweets obtained, unobtrusively. Particularly, we examine and exploit multimodal big (social)

data to discern depressive behaviors using a wide variety of features including individuallevel

demographics. By developing a multimodal framework and employing statistical techniques

to fuse heterogeneous sets of features obtained through the processing of visual,

textual, and user interaction data, we significantly enhance the current state-of-the-art

approaches for identifying depressed individuals on Twitter (improving the average F1-

Score by 5 percent) as well as facilitate demographic inferences from social media. Besides

providing insights into the relationship between demographics and mental health, our

research assists in the design of a new breed of demographic-aware health interventions.

UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226248&type=printable ER - TY - CONF T1 - Mental Health Analysis Via Social Media Data, IEEE ICHI 2018 T2 - IEEE, ICHI Y1 - 2018 A1 - Amir Hossein Yazdavar A1 - Mohammad Saied Mahdavinejad A1 - Goonmeet Bajaj A1 - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan A1 - Jyotishman Pathak A1 - Amit Sheth JF - IEEE, ICHI ER - TY - CONF T1 - Relatedness-based Multi-Entity Summarization T2 - IJCAI Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kalpa Gunaratna A1 - Amir Hossein Yazdavar A1 - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan A1 - Amit Sheth A1 - Gong Cheng AB -

Representing world knowledge in a machine processable format is important as entities and their descriptions have fueled tremendous growth in knowledge-rich information processing platforms, services, and systems. Prominent applications of knowledge graphs include search engines (e.g., Google Search and Microsoft Bing), email clients (e.g., Gmail), and intelligent personal assistants (e.g., Google Now, Amazon Echo, and Apple’s Siri). In this paper, we present an approach that can summarize facts about a collection of entities by analyzing their relatedness in preference to summarizing each entity in isolation. Specifically, we generate informative entity summaries by selecting: (i) inter-entity facts that are similar and (ii) intra-entity facts that are important and diverse. We employ a constrained knapsack problem solving approach to efficiently compute entity summaries. We perform both qualitative and quantitative experiments and demonstrate that our approach yields promising results compared to two other stand-alone state-ofthe-art entity summarization approaches.

JF - IJCAI ER - TY - CONF T1 - Semi-Supervised Approach to Monitoring Clinical Depressive Symptoms in Social Media T2 - ASONAM Y1 - 2017 A1 - Amir Hossein Yazdavar ED - Hussein S. Al-Olimat ED - Monireh Ebrahimi ED - Goonmeet Bajaj ED - Tanvi Banerjee ED - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan ED - Jyotishman Pathak ED - Amit Sheth AB -

With the rise of social media, millions of people are routinely expressing their moods, feelings, and daily struggles with mental health issues on social media platforms like Twitter. Unlike traditional observational cohort studies conducted through questionnaires and self-reported surveys, we explore the reliable detection of clinical depression from tweets obtained unobtrusively. Based on the analysis of tweets crawled from users with self-reported depressive symptoms in their Twitter profiles, we demonstrate the potential for detecting clinical depression symptoms which emulate the PHQ-9 questionnaire clinicians use today. Our study uses a semi-supervised statistical model to evaluate how the duration of these symptoms and their expression on Twitter (in terms of word usage patterns and topical preferences) align with the medical findings reported via the PHQ-9. Our proactive and automatic screening tool is able to identify clinical depressive symptoms with an accuracy of 68% and precision of 72%.

JF - ASONAM UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3110025.3123028 ER - TY - CONF T1 - An Ontology Design Pattern for Material Transformation T2 - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014. Y1 - 2014 A1 - Charles Vardeman A1 - Adila Krisnadhi A1 - Michelle Cheatham A1 - Krzysztof Janowicz A1 - Holly Ferguson A1 - Pascal Hitzler A1 - Aimee Buccellato A1 - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan A1 - Gary Berg-Cross A1 - Torsten Hahmann ED - de Boer, Victor ED - Aldo Gangemi ED - Krzysztof Janowicz ED - Agnieszka Lawrynowicz AB - In this work we discuss an ontology design pattern for material transformations. It models the relation between products, resources, and catalysts in the transformation process. Our axiomatization goes beyond a mere surface semantics. While we focus on the construction domain, the pattern can also be applied to chemistry and other domains. JF - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014. PB - CEUR-WS.org VL - 1302 UR - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1302 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Representation of Parsimonious Covering Theory in OWL-DL T2 - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions {(OWLED} 2011), San Francisco, California, USA, June 5-6, 2011 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Cory A. Henson A1 - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan A1 - Amit P. Sheth A1 - Pascal Hitzler ED - Michel Dumontier ED - Mélanie Courtot AB -

The Web Ontology Language has not been designed for representing abductive inference, which is often required for applications such as medical disease diagnosis. As a consequence, existing OWL ontologies have limited ability to encode knowledge for such applications. In the last 150 years, many logic frameworks for the representation of abductive inference have been developed. Among these frameworks, Parsimonious Covering Theory (PCT) has achieved wide recognition. PCT is a formal model of diagnostic reasoning in which knowledge is represented as a network of causal associations, and whose goal is to account for observed symptoms with plausible explanatory hypotheses. In this paper, we argue that OWL does provide some of the expressivity required to approximate diagnostic reasoning, and outline a suitable encoding of PCT in OWL-DL.

JF - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions {(OWLED} 2011), San Francisco, California, USA, June 5-6, 2011 PB - CEUR-WS.org CY - San Francisco, California, USA VL - 796 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Provenance Context Entity (PaCE): Scalable Provenance Tracking for Scientific RDF Data T2 - Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 22nd International Conference, SSDBM 2010 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Satya S. Sahoo A1 - Olivier Bodenreider A1 - Pascal Hitzler A1 - Amit Sheth A1 - Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan ED - Michael Gertz ED - Bertram Ludäscher KW - Biomedical knowledge repository KW - Context theory KW - Provenance context entity KW - Provenance Management Framework. KW - Provenir ontology KW - RDF reification AB -

The Semantic Web Resource Description Framework (RDF) format is being used by a large number of scientific applications to store and disseminate their datasets. The provenance information, describing the source or lineage of the datasets, is playing an increasingly significant role in ensuring data quality, computing trust value of the datasets, and ranking query results. Current Semantic Web provenance tracking approaches using the RDF reification vocabulary suffer from a number of known issues, including lack of formal semantics, use of blank nodes, and application-dependent interpretation of reified RDF triples that hinders data sharing. In this paper, we introduce a new approach called Provenance Context Entity (PaCE) that uses the notion of provenance context to create provenance-aware RDF triples without the use of RDF reification or blank nodes. We also define the formal semantics of PaCE through a simple extension of the existing RDF(S) semantics that ensures compatibility of PaCE with existing Semantic Web tools and implementations. We have implemented the PaCE approach in the Biomedical Knowledge Repository (BKR) project at the US National Library of Medicine to support provenance tracking on RDF data extracted from multiple sources, including biomedical literature and the UMLS Metathesaurus. The evaluations demonstrate a minimum of 49% reduction in total number of provenancespecific RDF triples generated using the PaCE approach as compared to RDF reification. In addition, using the PACE approach improves the performance of complex provenance queries by three orders of magnitude and remains comparable to the RDF reification approach for simpler provenance queries. 

JF - Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 22nd International Conference, SSDBM 2010 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg, Germany VL - 6187 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13818-8_32 ER -