Identifying chinese microblog users with high suicide probability using internet-based profile and linguistic features: Classification model

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Guan, Li ^a,b   Hao, Bibo ^b   Cheng, Qijin ^c   Yip, Paul S F ^c   Zhu, Tingshao ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Classification model; Microblog; Suicide probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941367910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.4227     Document Type: Article

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