Deep Learning Based Approach For Detecting Suicidal Ideation in Hindi-English Code-Mixed Text: Baseline and Corpus

Kaustubh Agarwal, Bhavya Dhingra


Abstract
Suicide rates are rising among the youth, and the high association with suicidal ideation expression on social media necessitates further research into models for detecting suicidal ideation in text, such as tweets, to enable mitigation. Existing research has proven the feasibility of detecting suicidal ideation on social media in a particular language. However, studies have shown that bilingual and multilingual speakers tend to use code-mixed text on social media making the detection of suicidal ideation on code-mixed data crucial, even more so with the increasing number of bilingual and multilingual speakers. In this study we create a code-mixed Hindi-English (Hinglish) dataset for detection of suicidal ideation and evaluate the performance of traditional classifiers, deep learning architectures, and transformers on it. Among the tested classifier architectures, Indic BERT gave the best results with an accuracy of 98.54%.
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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2021
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National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India
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Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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Kaustubh Agarwal and Bhavya Dhingra. 2021. Deep Learning Based Approach For Detecting Suicidal Ideation in Hindi-English Code-Mixed Text: Baseline and Corpus. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 100–105, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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Deep Learning Based Approach For Detecting Suicidal Ideation in Hindi-English Code-Mixed Text: Baseline and Corpus (Agarwal & Dhingra, ICON 2021)
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