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Discovering Shifts to Suicidal Ideation from Mental Health Content in Social Media

M. Choudhury,Emre Kıcıman,2 Auteurs,Mrinal Kumar

2016 · DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858207
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 680 citations

TLDR

This paper develops a statistical methodology to infer which individuals could undergo transitions from mental health discourse to suicidal ideation, and utilizes semi-anonymous support communities on Reddit as unobtrusive data sources to infer the likelihood of these shifts.