What’s In a Note: Construction of a Suicide Note Corpus

This paper reports on the results of an initiative to create and annotate a corpus of suicide notes that can be used for machine learning. Ultimately, the corpus included 1,278 notes that were written by someone who died by suicide. Each note was reviewed by at least three annotators who mapped word...

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Published in:Biomedical Informatics Insights 2012-01, Vol.2012 (2012), p.1-6
Main Authors: Pestian, John P., Matykiewicz, Pawel, Linn-Gust, Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This paper reports on the results of an initiative to create and annotate a corpus of suicide notes that can be used for machine learning. Ultimately, the corpus included 1,278 notes that were written by someone who died by suicide. Each note was reviewed by at least three annotators who mapped words or sentences to a schema of emotions. This corpus has already been used for extensive scientific research.
ISSN:1178-2226
1178-2226
DOI:10.4137/BII.S10213