The visible and the latent linguistic clues of mental health in Brazilian Portuguese textual posts
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BibTeX citation:
@online{wilkens2026,
author = {Wilkens, Rodrigo and Caseli, Helena and Neris, Vânia and
Villavicencio, Aline},
title = {The Visible and the Latent Linguistic Clues of Mental Health
in {Brazilian} {Portuguese} Textual Posts},
date = {2026-04-13},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-2.21/},
langid = {en},
abstract = {Depressive symptomatology may be reflected in the language
used by possible depressive profiles (PDP). This paper investigates
to what extent symptoms of depression are manifested in Brazilian
Portuguese narrative texts, and whether these can be used to
identify relevant linguistic clues related to PDP. Moreover, the
relation between these symptoms and PDP is explored, characterising
the lexical, syntactic, and psycholinguistic aspects of texts
produced by PDP. We found that texts associated with PDPs differed
in some of these characteristics from non-PDP texts. The
interactions between symptoms and PDP can also shed light on
patterns of communication differentiation and the relationship
between them. The results of this paper can help to characterise and
understand the indicators that can be used to train more bespoke and
accurate large language models.}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Wilkens, Rodrigo, Helena Caseli, Vânia Neris, and Aline Villavicencio.
2026. “The Visible and the Latent Linguistic Clues of Mental
Health in Brazilian Portuguese Textual Posts.” April 13, 2026. https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-2.21/.