Summary of Enhancing Suicide Risk Detection on Social Media Through Semi-supervised Deep Label Smoothing, by Matthew Squires et al.
Enhancing Suicide Risk Detection on Social Media through Semi-Supervised Deep Label Smoothing
by Matthew Squires, Xiaohui Tao, Soman Elangovan, U Rajendra Acharya, Raj Gururajan, Haoran Xie, Xujuan Zhou
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a novel approach to improving the accuracy of deep learning models for classifying mental health conditions on online forums. The authors highlight the limitations of traditional hard-label approaches, which fail to account for the inherent uncertainty in diagnosing mental health conditions. Instead, they propose a semi-supervised label smoothing method that leverages fuzzy or soft labels to capture this uncertainty. The method is tested on the Reddit C-SSRS dataset and outperforms existing state-of-the-art models with an accuracy of 52%. This improvement has the potential to better support individuals experiencing mental distress online. The authors conclude by emphasizing the importance of exploring probabilistic methods in natural language processing and quantifying epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty in noisy datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper talks about using artificial intelligence to help people struggling with mental health issues on social media platforms like Reddit. Many people who are struggling don’t get the support they need, partly because of stigma around seeking help. The authors propose a new way to classify social media posts that takes into account the uncertainty and subjectivity involved in diagnosing mental health conditions. This approach uses “soft” labels instead of traditional “hard” labels, which can be more accurate. They test their method on a dataset from Reddit and find it performs better than existing methods. The authors think this could help people struggling online get the support they need. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Natural language processing » Semi supervised
