A profile-based sentiment-aware approach for depression detection in social media

EPJ Data Science

Table 5 Performance of the proposed approach using different classifiers. BoW combining specialized classifiers per users’ traits is showed as a baseline

Approach	Rep.	Reddit		Twitter
Approach	Rep.	SVM	RF	SVM	RF
Single Classifier	BoW	0.57	0.54 (± 0.05)	0.85 (± 0.02)	0.75 (± 0.03)
Single Classifier	BoP	0.59	0.60 (± 0.03)	0.85 (± 0.01)	0.78 (± 0.04)
Age-based classifiers	BoW	0.58	0.60 (± 0.07)	0.82 (± 0.02)	0.78 (± 0.04)
Age-based classifiers	BoP	0.62	0.64 (± 0.06)	0.85 (± 0.02)	0.85 (± 0.01)
Gender-based classifiers	BoW	0.60	0.58 (± 0.08)	0.86 (± 0.05)	0.85 (± 0.02)
Gender-based classifiers	BoP	0.65	0.66 (± 0.03)	0.85 (± 0.00)	0.86 (± 0.03)