A machine learning approach to identifying thought markers of suicidal subjects

Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by lordnacho on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:39AM (#12898592)

And how accurate are traditional methods? Seems to be behind a paywall.

Exciting, whatever the answer is. It's awful when someone commits suicide, and if there's some automated way to test it, that would help a lot. Also less intrusive. Who knows how many people need help but are too shy to reach out.

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Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by sudhirj on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:45AM (#12898614)

This is also one of those perfect applications where it's quite okay to have a false positive.

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Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by DINKDINK on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:51AM (#12898647)

"Hi this is an automated message from Facebook alerting you that the police have been called to your husband's/friends/boss's location to prevent him from killing himself"

"Actually just kidding, we had a little SNAFU. Thank you for being a loyal Facebook user, we assume this had a neutral effect on your life"

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Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by aub3bhat on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:58AM (#12898687)

Actually Instagram does send a message to the user if enough people mark the user in danger of being harmed. Similar with Google where if someone searches for methods of committing suicide the user will get a number for helpline as first result in bold letter.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/19/instagram-tackles-self-har...

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Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by belovedeagle on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:49AM (#12898637)

Holy , you can see why I wrote my top-level comment. Even here people are already jumping on the "who cares if it's accurate, take away their freedom and their dignity at the first sign of trouble!" bandwagon.

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Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by fennecfoxen on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:48AM (#12898632)

Is it really?

Everyone, sudhirj is suicidal! Please contact everyone who knows him and ask them to reach out. I'm sure this is not going to damage his or her interpersonal relationships or career prospects at all.

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Re:A machine learning approach to identifying thought marker... by Scarblac on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:14AM (#12899294)

I don't know, the first application I can think of is raising life insurance fees for people who may be suicidal.

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