Sarsam, SM, Al-Samarraie, H orcid.org/0000-0002-9861-8989, Alzahrani, AI et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Characterizing Suicide Ideation by Using Mental Disorder Features on Microblogs: A Machine Learning Perspective. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 22 (4). pp. 1783-1796. ISSN 1557-1874
Abstract
Despite the success of psychological and clinical methods, psychological studies revealed that the number of individuals exhibiting suicide ideation has highly increased in the recent decades. This study explored the potential of using certain sentimental features as a means for characterizing suicide. A total of 54,385 English-language tweets were collected and processed to extract suicide-related topics using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm. Both suicidal polarity (positive, negative, and neutral) and emotions (anger, fear, sadness, and trust) were extracted via SentiStrength, time series, and NRC Affect Intensity Lexicon methods. The results showed that suicidal tweets were less associated with trust, anger, and positive sentiments. In contrast, fear, sadness, and negative sentiments were highly associated with suicidal statements. The prediction results using this approach showed 97.64% accuracy in detecting suicide ideation. The obtained results from analyzing suicide-related tweets hold a promising future for characterizing suicide ideation worldwide.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Crown 2022. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Design (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2022 16:34 |
Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2025 15:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11469-022-00958-z |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193452 |