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"Is Depression Related To Cannabis?": A Knowledge-Infused Model For Entity And Relation Extraction With Limited Supervision, Kaushik Roy, Usha Lokala, Vedant Khandelwal, Amit P. Sheth

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With strong marketing advocacy of the benefits of cannabis use for improved mental health, cannabis legalization is a priority among legislators. However, preliminary scientific research does not conclusively associate cannabis with improved mental health. In this study, we explore the relationship between depression and consumption of cannabis in a targeted social media corpus involving personal use of cannabis with the intent to derive its potential mental health benefit. We use tweets that contain an association among three categories annotated by domain experts - Reason, Effect, and Addiction. The state-of-the-art Natural Langauge Processing techniques fall short in extracting these relationships between …