Sentiment Classification for Depression Detection: Integrating Capsule Networks with CNNs on Review Data

This research is focused on the analysis of how Capsule Networks should be combined with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for improving the sentiment classification with the target of depression detection based on the data offered by the reviews. Other methodologies of analysing the sentiment of a phrase may encounter disability in the process of analysing texts in natural language following depression since they do not analyse the text deeply enough to consider the context. The proposed method intends to enhance accuracy and resistance when compared to state-of-the-art techniques by combining the attributes of Capsule Networks, that effectively maintain the spatial hierarchy and the connections within the data, with CNNs’ feature extraction ability. The proposed hybrid model helps overcome disadvantages of the plain sentiment analysis because it identifies intricate patterns and dependencies in the review data and enhances the depressive sentiments’ detection. This paper assesses the propriety of the integrated Capsule-CNN through an evaluation on review datasets in relation to its ability in the successful differentiate between depressive and non-depressive sentiments. The findings reveal a considerable increase in method accuracy and present a leap of progress in the field of automatic depression detection, which in turn helps to develop more accurate and efficient tools for monitoring patients’ mental status.