Natural Language Processing of Social Media as Screening for Suicide Risk.
Suicide is among the 10 most common causes of death, as assessed by the World Health Organization. For every death by suicide, an estimated 138 people's lives are meaningfully affected, and almost any other statistic around suicide deaths is equally alarming. The pervasiveness of social media—and th...
| Publicado en: | Biomedical Informatics Insights no. 10; pp. 1 - 2 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2018
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