Models of Gender Dysphoria Using Social Media Data for Use in Technology-Delivered Interventions: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Validation Study

Cory J Cascalheira   ^{1, 2} , BA ;   Ryan E Flinn   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Yuxuan Zhao   ¹ , MEd ;   Dannie Klooster   ⁵ , MS ;   Danica Laprade   ⁶ ;   Shah Muhammad Hamdi   ⁷ , PhD ;   Jillian R Scheer   ² , PhD ;   Alejandra Gonzalez   ⁸ , PhD ;   Emily M Lund   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Ivan N Gomez   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Koustuv Saha   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Munmun De Choudhury   ¹² , PhD

¹ Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States

² Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States

³ Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States

⁴ University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States

⁵ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States

⁶ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

⁷ Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States

⁸ Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, United States

⁹ University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

¹⁰ Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

¹¹ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States

¹² Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States