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PACLIC 29 Topic Model for Identifying Suicidal Ideation in Chinese Microblog Xiaolei Huang1, Xin Li1, Lei Zhang2, Tianli Liu3, David Chiu4, Tingshao Zhu*5,6 1Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, {xlhuang,lixin}@ 2Jinan University, China, zl.ramiel@ 3Inst. of Population Research, Peking University, China, tianli.liu@ 4Dept. of Math and Computer Science, University of Puget Sound, USA, dchiu@ 5Inst. of Psychology, CAS China, tszhu@ 6Inst. of Computing Technology, CAS China Abstract deed, there are many more people who attempt sui- cide every year. Instead of calling health services or Suicide is one of major public health problems seeking for help in-person, choosing social networks worldwide. Traditionally, suicidal ideation is is a preferable choice for some suicide because of assessed by surveys or interviews, which lacks privacy and facilitating sharing similar experiences of a real-time assessment of personal men- among peers (Luxton et al., 2011). tal state. Online social networks, with large amount of user-generated data, offer opportu- Social network sites (SNS), such as Twitter, Sina nities to gain insights of suicide assessment Weibo, have become popular platforms for peo- and prevention. In this paper, we explore ple to express themselves. Sina Weibo is a Chi- potentiality to identify and monitor suicide nese leading social network akin to Twitter. Ac- expressed in microblog on social networks. cording to the latest Sina Weibo User Activity First, we identify users who have commit- Report (/report/ ted suicide and collect millions of microblogs from social networks. Se