An attention-based hybrid architecture with explainability for depressive social media text detection in Bangla

Tapotosh Ghosh, Md. Hasan Al Banna, M. Jaber Al Nahian, Mohammed Nasir Uddin, M. Shamim Kaiser, Mufti Mahmud

Abstract: Highlights•The proposed method detects depression from Bangla social media texts.•The method is based on the bidirectional LSTM and CNN.•Attention mechanism was used to improve the performance of the bidirectional LSTM.•The proposed method is explainable and outperforms existing methods.