Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mental Health in Pandemics

Chapter Eleven: Predicting loneliness from social media text using machine learning techniques

Rishik Sood, Hrishav Varma, Kavita Pandey, Shikha Jain, Degala Sriram, and Arshpreet Singh Guglani      Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

According to psychology, loneliness exists in two contexts: positive and negative. It is about “I am alone” or “I want to be alone.” The positive sense of loneliness is commonly known as solitude where the person wants to spend time with himself to feel good or want to introspect himself. In the negative sense, persons experience loneliness due to circumstances and, if it goes undetected, ...