Research Paper Journal of Information Science 1–21 Ó The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0165551519860469 journals.sagepub.com/home/jis Exploring the dominant features of social media for depression detection Jamil Hussain Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Fahad Ahmed Satti Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Muhammad Afzal College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sejong University, Republic of Korea Wajahat Ali Khan Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Muhammad Zaki Ansaar Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Sciences & Information Technology (CCSIT), King Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Taeho Hur Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Jaehun Bang Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Jee-In Kim Department of Smart ICT Convergence, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea Gwang Hoon Park Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Hyonwoo Seung Department of Computer Science, Seoul Women’s University, Republic of Korea Sungyoung Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea