Overview of eRisk 2024: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet

This paper presents eRisk 2024, the eighth edition of the CLEF conference’s lab, focusing on early risk detection. Since its beginning, the lab has been dedicated to exploring evaluation methodologies, effectiveness metrics, and related processes in early risk detection. The utility of early alerting models encompasses various sectors, notably health and safety. eRisk 2024 featured three main tasks. The first task required participants to rank sentences according to their relevance to standardised symptoms of depression. The second task aimed at the early detection of anorexia indicators. The third task involved automatically estimating an eating disorders questionnaire by analysing users’ social media posts.

keywords: Early risk, Depression, Anorexia, Eating disorders