CLPsych 2019 Shared Task: Predicting the Degree of Suicide Risk in Reddit Posts
Overview of the CLPsych 2019 Shared Task, which introduced an assessment of suicide risk based on social media postings, using Reddit data to classify users at no, low, moderate, or severe risk. Two task variants focused on users whose r/SuicideWatch posts indicated possible risk; a third screened users based only on their everyday, non-SuicideWatch posts.
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics (CLPsych 2019 Workshop, NAACL)
Published
1 Jun 2019
Added
2 weeks ago
Key Findings
- Introduced a four-level suicide-risk classification task (no/low/moderate/severe) built on Reddit r/SuicideWatch posts
- A third task variant screened for risk using only a user's everyday (non-SuicideWatch) posts, testing whether risk is detectable outside an explicit crisis-community context
- Received submissions from 15 different teams, establishing an early comparative benchmark for language-signal-based suicide-risk prediction
Methodology Notes
Shared-task overview paper for the 2019 Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych), held at NAACL 2019 (June 2019; exact day not confirmed, day set to 01). Establishes the annual CLPsych shared-task format later continued in 2021 and 2022 (2022 edition already held in this library).
Sources
ACL Anthology (primary)
Archived snapshot (Wayback Machine) — preserved against link rot
Authors
Ayah Zirikly, Philip Resnik, Ozlem Uzuner, Kristy Hollingshead
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APA
Ayah Zirikly et al. (2019). CLPsych 2019 Shared Task: Predicting the Degree of Suicide Risk in Reddit Posts. Association for Computational Linguistics (CLPsych 2019 Workshop, NAACL). https://aclanthology.org/W19-3003/
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