Identification of Suicidal Tendencies of Individuals Based on the Quantitative Analysis of their Internet Texts



Título del documento: Identification of Suicidal Tendencies of Individuals Based on the Quantitative Analysis of their Internet Texts
Revue: Computación y Sistemas
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000423238
ISSN: 1405-5546
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Voronezh State University, Voronezh. Rusia
2Voronezh State Pedagogical University, Voronezh. Rusia
3Scientific Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscú. Rusia
4Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla. México
5Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscú. Rusia
Año:
Periodo: Abr-Jun
Volumen: 21
Número: 2
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Aplicado, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés Even though suicide is one of the top three causes of young people’s deaths, no reliable methods of identifying suicidal behavior have been developed. One of the promising directions of research is quantitative analysis of speech. It is nowadays common to process texts by suicidal individuals (mostly suicidal notes or literary texts by famous people, e.g., poets, writes, etc.) and texts by individuals from a control group using software (mostly LIWC) and to design models for classifying texts as those by suicidal individuals or not. This kind of analysis has been mainly performed for English texts that generally have a number of restrictions due to their linguistic nature. The authors are the first to attempt to design a mathematical model to classify texts as those by suicidal or nonsuicidal individuals using numerical values of linguistic parameters as features. Texts (blogs by young people who committed suicides, similar in both genre and topic, to those by individuals of an age-corresponding control group) were processed using the Russian version of LIWC with users’ dictionaries. Unlike current studies, in designing the model we mostly made use of features that are not significantly dependent on the content. This is because not all individuals who committed suicides are known to deal with the topic in their texts. The resulting model was shown to be 71.5% accurate, which is comparable with the state-of-the-art for English texts
Disciplinas: Ciencias de la computación,
Medicina,
Literatura y lingüística
Palabras clave: Psiquiatría,
Lingüística aplicada,
Análisis de la información,
Lenguaje suicida,
Textos de internet,
Predictores de suicidio,
Lingüística computacional
Keyword: Psychiatry,
Applied linguistics,
Information analysis,
Suicide language,
Internet texts,
Suicide predictors,
Computational linguistics
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