MANTIS at #SMM4H 2023: Leveraging Hybrid and Ensemble Models for Detection of Social Anxiety Disorder on Reddit

This paper presents our system employed for the Social Media Mining for Health 2023 Shared Task 4: Binary classification of English Reddit posts self-reporting a social anxiety disorder diagnosis. We systematically investigate and contrast the efficacy of hybrid and ensemble models that harness specialized medical domain-adapted transformers in conjunction with BiLSTM neural networks. The evaluation results outline that our best performing model obtained 89.31% F1 on the validation set and 83.76% F1 on the test set.