(Boston, MA, White River Junction, VT & Menlo Park, CA) – “The Durkheim Project” Will Analyze Opt-In Data From Veterans’… Read more →
Automated Flagging for
Psychological Health
and the prediction of negative events,
such as Suicide
Current State-of-Art:
Diagnosis of psychological health and the prediction of negative events, such as suicide, or their ideation are limited by…
Research
The project is named in honor of Emile Durkheim, a founding sociologist whose 1897 publication of Suicide defined early text analysis for suicide risk, and provided important theoretical explanations relating to societal disconnection.
Results
We developed linguistics-driven prediction models to estimate the risk of suicide. These models were generated from unstructured clinical notes taken from a national sample of U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) medical records…
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