Learning Models for Suicide Prediction from Social Media Posts

Ning Wang, Fan Luo, Yuvraj Shivtare, Varsha Badal, K. P. Subbalakshmi, R. Chandramouli, Ellen Lee

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Abstract

We propose a deep learning architecture and test three other machine learning models to automatically detect individuals that will attempt suicide within (1) 30 days and (2) six months, using their social media post data provided in (Macavaney et al., 2021) via the CLPsych 2021 shared task. Additionally, we create and extract three sets of handcrafted features for suicide risk detection based on the three-stage theory of suicide and prior work on emotions and the use of pronouns among persons exhibiting suicidal ideations. Extensive experimentations show that some of the traditional machine learning methods outperform the baseline with an F1 score of 0.741 and F2 score of 0.833 on subtask 1 (prediction of a suicide attempt 30 days prior). However, the proposed deep learning method outperforms the baseline with F1 score of 0.737 and F2 score of 0.843 on subtask 2 (prediction of suicide 6 months prior).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
Subtitle of host publicationImproving Access, CLPsych 2021 - Proceedings of the 7th Workshop, in conjunction with NAACL 2021
EditorsNazli Goharian, Philip Resnik, Andrew Yates, Molly Ireland, Kate Niederhoffer, Rebecca Resnik
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages87-92
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085411
StatePublished - 2021
Event7th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access, CLPsych 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Jun 11 2021 → …

Publication series

NameComputational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access, CLPsych 2021 - Proceedings of the 7th Workshop, in conjunction with NAACL 2021

Conference

Conference7th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access, CLPsych 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/11/21 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Speech and Hearing

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