Uncertainty-aware Semi-supervised Ensemble Teacher Framework for Multilingual Depression Detection

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Autori principali: Rehman, Mohammad Zia Ur, Navya, Velpuru, Sanskar, Qureshi, Shuja Uddin, Kumar, Nagendra
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author Rehman, Mohammad Zia Ur
Navya, Velpuru
Sanskar
Qureshi, Shuja Uddin
Kumar, Nagendra
author_facet Rehman, Mohammad Zia Ur
Navya, Velpuru
Sanskar
Qureshi, Shuja Uddin
Kumar, Nagendra
contents Detecting depression from social media text is still a challenging task. This is due to different language styles, informal expression, and the lack of annotated data in many languages. To tackle these issues, we propose, Semi-SMDNet, a strong Semi-Supervised Multilingual Depression detection Network. It combines teacher-student pseudo-labelling, ensemble learning, and augmentation of data. Our framework uses a group of teacher models. Their predictions come together through soft voting. An uncertainty-based threshold filters out low-confidence pseudo-labels to reduce noise and improve learning stability. We also use a confidence-weighted training method that focuses on reliable pseudo-labelled samples. This greatly boosts robustness across languages. Tests on Arabic, Bangla, English, and Spanish datasets show that our approach consistently beats strong baselines. It significantly reduces the performance gap between settings that have plenty of resources and those that do not. Detailed experiments and studies confirm that our framework is effective and can be used in various situations. This shows that it is suitable for scalable, cross-language mental health monitoring where labelled resources are limited.
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spellingShingle Uncertainty-aware Semi-supervised Ensemble Teacher Framework for Multilingual Depression Detection
Rehman, Mohammad Zia Ur
Navya, Velpuru
Sanskar
Qureshi, Shuja Uddin
Kumar, Nagendra
Computation and Language
Detecting depression from social media text is still a challenging task. This is due to different language styles, informal expression, and the lack of annotated data in many languages. To tackle these issues, we propose, Semi-SMDNet, a strong Semi-Supervised Multilingual Depression detection Network. It combines teacher-student pseudo-labelling, ensemble learning, and augmentation of data. Our framework uses a group of teacher models. Their predictions come together through soft voting. An uncertainty-based threshold filters out low-confidence pseudo-labels to reduce noise and improve learning stability. We also use a confidence-weighted training method that focuses on reliable pseudo-labelled samples. This greatly boosts robustness across languages. Tests on Arabic, Bangla, English, and Spanish datasets show that our approach consistently beats strong baselines. It significantly reduces the performance gap between settings that have plenty of resources and those that do not. Detailed experiments and studies confirm that our framework is effective and can be used in various situations. This shows that it is suitable for scalable, cross-language mental health monitoring where labelled resources are limited.
title Uncertainty-aware Semi-supervised Ensemble Teacher Framework for Multilingual Depression Detection
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24772