Dynamics of an idiostyle of a Russian suicidal blogger

Tatiana Litvinova, Olga Litvinova, Pavel Seredin


Abstract
Over 800000 people die of suicide each year. It is es-timated that by the year 2020, this figure will have in-creased to 1.5 million. It is considered to be one of the major causes of mortality during adolescence. Thus there is a growing need for methods of identifying su-icidal individuals. Language analysis is known to be a valuable psychodiagnostic tool, however the material for such an analysis is not easy to obtain. Currently as the Internet communications are developing, there is an opportunity to study texts of suicidal individuals. Such an analysis can provide a useful insight into the peculiarities of suicidal thinking, which can be used to further develop methods for diagnosing the risk of suicidal behavior. The paper analyzes the dynamics of a number of linguistic parameters of an idiostyle of a Russian-language blogger who died by suicide. For the first time such an analysis has been conducted using the material of Russian online texts. For text processing, the LIWC program is used. A correlation analysis was performed to identify the relationship between LIWC variables and number of days prior to suicide. Data visualization, as well as comparison with the results of related studies was performed.
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W18-0617
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, LA
Editors:
Kate Loveys, Kate Niederhoffer, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Rebecca Resnik, Philip Resnik
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CLPsych
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
158–167
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-0617
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-0617
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Tatiana Litvinova, Olga Litvinova, and Pavel Seredin. 2018. Dynamics of an idiostyle of a Russian suicidal blogger. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, pages 158–167, New Orleans, LA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Dynamics of an idiostyle of a Russian suicidal blogger (Litvinova et al., CLPsych 2018)
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