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Suicide remains one of the main preventable causes of death among active service members and veterans. Early detection and prediction are crucial in suicide prevention. Machine learning techniques have yielded promising results in this area…

The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated mental health crises worldwide, with social isolation and economic instability contributing to a rise in suicidal behavior. Suicide can result from social factors such as shame, abuse, abandonment, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Van Minh Nguyen , Nasheen Nur , William Stern , Thomas Mercer , Chiradeep Sen , Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , Victor Tumbiolo , Seng Jhing Goh

Suicide is recognized as one of the most serious concerns in the modern society. Suicide causes tragedy that affects countries, communities, and families. There are many factors that lead to suicidal ideations. Early detection of suicidal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer

With social media communities increasingly becoming places where suicidal individuals post and congregate, natural language processing presents an exciting avenue for the development of automated suicide risk assessment systems. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Max Lovitt , Haotian Ma , Song Wang , Yifan Peng

Suicidal ideation detection is crucial for preventing suicides, a leading cause of death worldwide. Many individuals express suicidal thoughts on social media, offering a vital opportunity for early detection through advanced machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Mohaiminul Islam Bhuiyan , Nur Shazwani Kamarudin , Nur Hafieza Ismail

Though suicide is a major public health problem in the US, machine learning methods are not commonly used to predict an individual's risk of attempting/committing suicide. In the present work, starting with an anonymized collection of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-04 Harish S. Bhat , Sidra J. Goldman-Mellor

Social media platforms have become important sources for identifying suicide risk, but automated detection systems face multiple challenges including severe class imbalance, temporal complexity in posting patterns, and the dual nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Chang Yang , Ziyi Wang , Wangfeng Tan , Zhiting Tan , Changrui Ji , Zhiming Zhou

The prevalence of suicide has been on the rise since the 20th century, causing severe emotional damage to individuals, families, and communities alike. Despite the severity of this suicide epidemic, there is so far no reliable and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Siyu Liu , Catherine Lu , Sharifa Alghowinem , Lea Gotoh , Cynthia Breazeal , Hae Won Park

In recent times, more and more people are posting about their mental states across various social media platforms. Leveraging this data, AI-based systems can be developed that help in assessing the mental health of individuals, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Chayan Tank , Shaina Mehta , Sarthak Pol , Vinayak Katoch , Avinash Anand , Raj Jaiswal , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Suicide rates have risen worldwide in recent years, underscoring the urgent need for proactive prevention strategies. Social media provides valuable signals, as many at-risk individuals - who often avoid formal help due to stigma - choose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yukai Song , Pengfei Zhou , César Escobar-Viera , Candice Biernesser , Wei Huang , Jingtong Hu

Mental health poses a significant challenge for an individual's well-being. Text analysis of rich resources, like social media, can contribute to deeper understanding of illnesses and provide means for their early detection. We tackle a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Ivan Sekulić , Michael Strube

A large number of individuals are suffering from suicidal ideation in the world. There are a number of causes behind why an individual might suffer from suicidal ideation. As the most popular platform for self-expression, emotion release,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lei Cao , Huijun Zhang , Ling Feng

On social media, users often express their personal feelings, which may exhibit cognitive distortions or even suicidal tendencies on certain specific topics. Early recognition of these signs is critical for effective psychological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongzhi Qi , Qing Zhao , Jianqiang Li , Changwei Song , Wei Zhai , Dan Luo , Shuo Liu , Yi Jing Yu , Fan Wang , Huijing Zou , Bing Xiang Yang , Guanghui Fu

With the increased awareness of situations of mental crisis and their societal impact, online services providing emergency support are becoming commonplace in many countries. Computational models, trained on discussions between help-seekers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Amir Bialer , Daniel Izmaylov , Avi Segal , Oren Tsur , Yossi Levi-Belz , Kobi Gal

Suicide is a prominent issue in society. Unfortunately, many people at risk for suicide do not receive the support required. Barriers to people receiving support include social stigma and lack of access to mental health care. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Matthew Squires , Xiaohui Tao , Soman Elangovan , U Rajendra Acharya , Raj Gururajan , Haoran Xie , Xujuan Zhou

For many psychiatric disorders, neuroimaging offers a potential for revolutionizing diagnosis, and potentially treatment, by providing access to preverbal mental processes. In their study "Machine learning of neural representations of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-02 Timothy Verstynen , Konrad Kording

The promising research on Artificial Intelligence usages in suicide prevention has principal gaps, including black box methodologies, inadequate outcome measures, and scarce research on non-verbal inputs, such as social media images…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yael Badian , Yaakov Ophir , Refael Tikochinski , Nitay Calderon , Anat Brunstein Klomek , Roi Reichart

Suicide is among the leading causes of death in China. However, technical approaches toward preventing suicide are challenging and remaining under development. Recently, several actual suicidal cases were preceded by users who posted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Xiaolei Huang , Lei Zhang , Tianli Liu , David Chiu , Tingshao Zhu , Xin Li

Accurate prediction of suicide risk in mental health patients remains an open problem. Existing methods including clinician judgments have acceptable sensitivity, but yield many false positives. Exploiting administrative data has a great…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-05 Thuong Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Shivapratap Gopakumar , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

The early detection of suicide risk is important since it enables the intervention to prevent potential suicide attempts. This paper studies the automatic detection of suicide risk based on spontaneous speech from adolescents, and collects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ziyun Cui , Chang Lei , Wen Wu , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Ji Wu , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang