Predicting Suicide Risk from Online Postings in Reddit The UGent-IDLab submission to the CLPysch 2019 Shared Task A

Semere Kiros Bitew, Giannis Bekoulis, Johannes Deleu, Lucas Sterckx, Klim Zaporojets, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder

Abstract
This paper describes IDLab’s text classification systems submitted to Task A as part of the CLPsych 2019 shared task. The aim of this shared task was to develop automated systems that predict the degree of suicide risk of people based on their posts on Reddit. Bag-of-words features, emotion features and post level predictions are used to derive user-level predictions. Linear models and ensembles of these models are used to predict final scores. We find that predicting fine-grained risk levels is much more difficult than flagging potentially at-risk users. Furthermore, we do not find clear added value from building richer ensembles compared to simple baselines, given the available training data and the nature of the prediction task.
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W19-3019
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Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
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June
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2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Kate Niederhoffer, Kristy Hollingshead, Philip Resnik, Rebecca Resnik, Kate Loveys
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CLPsych
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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158–161
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3019
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10.18653/v1/W19-3019
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Semere Kiros Bitew, Giannis Bekoulis, Johannes Deleu, Lucas Sterckx, Klim Zaporojets, Thomas Demeester, and Chris Develder. 2019. Predicting Suicide Risk from Online Postings in Reddit The UGent-IDLab submission to the CLPysch 2019 Shared Task A. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, pages 158–161, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Predicting Suicide Risk from Online Postings in Reddit The UGent-IDLab submission to the CLPysch 2019 Shared Task A (Bitew et al., CLPsych 2019)
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