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eRisk 2024: Depression, Anorexia, and Eating Disorder Challenges

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In 2017, we launched eRisk as a CLEF Lab to encourage research on early risk detection on the Internet. Since then, thanks to the participants’ work, we have developed detection models and datasets for depression, anorexia, pathological gambling and self-harm. In 2024, it will be the eighth edition of the lab, where we will present a revision of the sentence ranking for depression symptoms, the third edition of tasks on early alert of anorexia and eating disorder severity estimation. This paper outlines the work that we have done to date, discusses key lessons learned in previous editions, and presents our plans for eRisk 2024.

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The first and second authors thank the financial support supplied by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades (accreditation 2019-2022 ED431G/01, ED431B 2022/33) and the European Regional Development Fund, which acknowledges the CITIC Research Center in ICT of the University of A Coruña as a Research Center of the Galician University System and the project PID2022-137061OB-C21 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento; suppported by the European Regional Development Fund). The third author thanks the financial support supplied by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades (accreditation 2019-2022 ED431G-2019/04, ED431C 2022/19) and the European Regional Development Fund, which acknowledges the CiTIUS-Research Center in Intelligent Technologies of the University of Santiago de Compostela as a Research Center of the Galician University System. The third author thanks the financial support obtained from: i) project PID2022-137061OB-C22 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento; suppported by the European Regional Development Fund) and ii) project SUBV23/00002 (Ministerio de Consumo, Subdirección General de Regulación del Juego). The first, second, and third author also thank the funding of project PLEC2021-007662 (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, Unión Europea-Next Generation EU).

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  1. Information Retrieval Lab, Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información e as Comunicacións (CITIC), Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    Javier Parapar & Patricia Martín-Rodilla

  2. Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain

    David E. Losada

  3. Faculty of Informatics, Universitá della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

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Parapar, J., Martín-Rodilla, P., Losada, D.E., Crestani, F. (2024). eRisk 2024: Depression, Anorexia, and Eating Disorder Challenges. In: Goharian, N., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_65

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