Conceptualizing Suicidal Behavior: Utilizing Explanations of Predicted Outcomes to Analyze Longitudinal Social Media Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08299v2
• Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:45:13 GMT
• Title: Conceptualizing Suicidal Behavior: Utilizing Explanations of Predicted Outcomes to Analyze Longitudinal Social Media Data
• Authors: Van Minh Nguyen, Nasheen Nur, William Stern, Thomas Mercer, Chiradeep Sen, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Victor Tumbiolo, Seng Jhing Goh
• Abstract summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated mental health crises worldwide. Suicide can result from social factors such as shame, abuse, abandonment, and mental health conditions like depression. As these conditions develop, signs of suicidal ideation may manifest in social media interactions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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 mental health conditions like depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), anxiety disorders, and bipolar disorders. As these conditions develop, signs of suicidal ideation may manifest in social media interactions. Analyzing social media data using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can help identify patterns of suicidal behavior, providing invaluable insights for suicide prevention agencies, professionals, and broader community awareness initiatives. Machine learning algorithms for this purpose require large volumes of accurately labeled data. Previous research has not fully explored the potential of incorporating explanations in analyzing and labeling longitudinal social media data. In this study, we employed a model explanation method, Layer Integrated Gradients, on top of a fine-tuned state-of-the-art language model, to assign each token from Reddit users' posts an attribution score for predicting suicidal ideation. By extracting and analyzing attributions of tokens from the data, we propose a methodology for preliminary screening of social media posts for suicidal ideation without using large language models during inference.

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