Data mining approach to the detection of suicide in social media: A case study of Singapore

• Main Authors: SEAH, Jane H. K., SHIM, Kyong Jin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: suicide; suicide detection; social media; data mining; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4340; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5343/viewcontent/DM_Suicide_SocialMedia_2018_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this research, we focus on the social phenomenon of suicide. Specifically, we perform social sensing on digital traces obtained from Reddit. We analyze the posts and comments in that are related to depression and suicide. We perform natural language processing to better understand different aspec...