Using Deep Neural Networks with Intra- and Inter-Sentence Context to Classify Suicidal Behaviour

Xingyi Song, Johnny Downs, Sumithra Velupillai, Rachel Holden, Maxim Kikoler, Kalina Bontcheva, Rina Dutta, Angus Roberts


Abstract
Identifying statements related to suicidal behaviour in psychiatric electronic health records (EHRs) is an important step when modeling that behaviour, and when assessing suicide risk. We apply a deep neural network based classification model with a lightweight context encoder, to classify sentence level suicidal behaviour in EHRs. We show that incorporating information from sentences to left and right of the target sentence significantly improves classification accuracy. Our approach achieved the best performance when classifying suicidal behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorder patient records. The results could have implications for suicidality research and clinical surveillance.
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2020.lrec-1.163
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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1303–1310
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English
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Xingyi Song, Johnny Downs, Sumithra Velupillai, Rachel Holden, Maxim Kikoler, Kalina Bontcheva, Rina Dutta, and Angus Roberts. 2020. Using Deep Neural Networks with Intra- and Inter-Sentence Context to Classify Suicidal Behaviour. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1303–1310, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Using Deep Neural Networks with Intra- and Inter-Sentence Context to Classify Suicidal Behaviour (Song et al., LREC 2020)
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