Cognitive-Linguistic Indicators of Depression in Online Communities: Analysed by DistilBERT and Holographic Reduced Representation

In three linesStudy combining cognitive-linguistic features (first-person pronouns, absolutist words, negative emotions) with DistilBERT embeddings and Holographic Reduced Representation to detect depression in Reddit posts. Hybrid model achieves F1=0.94 vs 0.80 TF-IDF baseline, AUC=0.981.

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