Multi-class machine classification of suicide-related communication on Twitter

Online Social Networks and Media

Volumn 2, Issue , 2017, Pages 32-44

  Burnap, Pete ^a   Colombo, Gualtiero ^a   Amery, Rosie ^b   Hodorog, Andrei ^a   Scourfield, Jonathan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Human safety; Suicidal ideation; Text analysis; Web based interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISASTERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; WEBSITES;

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION DECISION; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; HUMAN SAFETY; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TEXT ANALYSIS; WEB BASED;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85049196231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24686964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.osnem.2017.08.001     Document Type: Article

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