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 “suicide method detection”, 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.
