@conference {1548859, title = {Reducing suicide contagion effect by detecting sentences from media reports with explicit methods of suicide}, booktitle = {IJCAI 2021 Workshop on AI for Social Good}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Research has shown that suicide rate can increase by 13\% when suicide is not reported responsibly. For example, irresponsible reporting includes specific details that depict suicide methods. To pro- mote more responsible journalism to save lives, we propose a novel problem called {\textquotedblleft}suicide method detection{\textquotedblright}, which determines if a sentence in a news article contains a description of a suicide method. Our results show two promising approaches: a rule-based approach using category pattern matching and a BERT model with data augmentation, both of which reach over 0.9 in F- measure.}, author = {Shima Gerani and Raphael Tissot and Annie Ying and Jennifer Redmon and Artemio Rimando and Riley Hun} }