Presentation 2017-02-10
Detecting Earthquake Survivors with Serious Mental Damage
Tatsuya Aoki, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura,
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Abstract(in English) The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes had a great impact to numerous people all over the world and reconfirmed the importance of anti-disaster measures. Under the big disaster, there are people suffering from some aftereffects such as post traumatic stress disorder. In this study, we detect users who have mental illness symptoms concerning an earthquake. We first focus on the users suffering from an earthquake and track their sentiment behavior before and after the disaster using Twitter as a sensor. Moreover, connecting earthquake survivors and their mental health condition, we aim to extract mental health aware victims. Our results suggest that sentiment deviation and linguistic style during the earthquake period represent user's mental condition, in addition to earthquake-specific word frequency. We believe that this work contributes to early mental health care for people suffering from aftereffects of a huge disaster.
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Keyword(in English) data mining / mental health / microblog / time series data / personality
Paper # NLC2016-48
Date of Issue 2017-02-02 (NLC)

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Committee NLC / IPSJ-IFAT
Conference Date 2017/2/9(2days)
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Chair Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM)
Vice Chair Makoto Ichise(NTT DoCoMo) / Takeshi Sakaki(Univ. of Tokyo/Hottolink)
Secretary Makoto Ichise(Ryukoku Univ.) / Takeshi Sakaki(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Ryuichiro Higashinaka(NTT) / Mitsuo Yoshida(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Information Fundamentals and Access Technologies
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Detecting Earthquake Survivors with Serious Mental Damage
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Keyword(1) data mining
Keyword(2) mental health
Keyword(3) microblog
Keyword(4) time series data
Keyword(5) personality
1st Author's Name Tatsuya Aoki
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology(Tokyo Tech)
2nd Author's Name Tetsuya Nasukawa
2nd Author's Affiliation IBM Research - Tokyo(IBM Research)
3rd Author's Name Katsumasa Yoshikawa
3rd Author's Affiliation IBM Research - Tokyo(IBM Research)
4th Author's Name Hiroya Takamura
4th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology(Tokyo Tech)
5th Author's Name Manabu Okumura
5th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology(Tokyo Tech)
Date 2017-02-10
Paper # NLC2016-48
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) NLC-451
Page pp.pp.65-70(NLC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-02-02 (NLC)