All Models are Wrong, But Some are Deadly: Inconsistencies in Emotion Detection in Suicide-related Tweets

Annika Marie Schoene, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Tomo Lazovich, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates


Abstract
Recent work in psychology has shown that people who experience mental health challenges are more likely to express their thoughts, emotions, and feelings on social media than share it with a clinical professional. Distinguishing suicide-related content, such as suicide mentioned in a humorous context, from genuine expressions of suicidal ideation is essential to better understanding context and risk. In this paper, we give a first insight and analysis into the differences between emotion labels annotated by humans and labels predicted by three fine-tuned language models (LMs) for suicide-related content. We find that (i) there is little agreement between LMs and humans for emotion labels of suicide-related Tweets and (ii) individual LMs predict similar emotion labels for all suicide-related categories. Our findings lead us to question the credibility and usefulness of such methods in high-risk scenarios such as suicide ideation detection.
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2024.nlp4pi-1.9
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Daryna Dementieva, Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Rada Mihalcea, Giorgio Piatti, Joel Tetreault, Steven Wilson, Jieyu Zhao
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NLP4PI
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Annika Marie Schoene, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Tomo Lazovich, and Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates. 2024. All Models are Wrong, But Some are Deadly: Inconsistencies in Emotion Detection in Suicide-related Tweets. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, pages 113–122, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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All Models are Wrong, But Some are Deadly: Inconsistencies in Emotion Detection in Suicide-related Tweets (Schoene et al., NLP4PI 2024)
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