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Improving Mental Health Screening and Early Risk Detection in Spanish
arXiv:2607.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early detection of mental health disorders is often limited by the lack of specialized resources in Spanish and the difficulty of analyzing long histori
arXiv:2607.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early detection of mental health disorders is often limited by the lack of specialized resources in Spanish and the difficulty of analyzing long histories of social media posts. This paper addresses these challenges through three main contributions. First, we introduce three Spanish foundational models specifically adapted to the mental health domain through domain-specific pre-training. Second, we propose Incremental Context Expansion (ICE), an automatic relabeling methodology designed for early detection. ICE identifies the point at which cumulative messages provide enough evidence of a disorder, generating more informative training samples. Third, we provide a set of fine-tuned models using the samples generated with the ICE methodology for early risk detection tasks. Our results on three Spanish benchmarks show that combining these specialized models with ICE improves the state-of-the-art, reducing detection latency while maintaining high performance. All models are publicly available.
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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-07-31