A BERT-encoded ensembled CNN model for suicide risk identification in social media posts

Suicide is a significant public health issue that devastates individuals and society. Early warning systems are crucial in preventing suicide. The purpose of this research is to create a deep learning model to identify suicide risk using a combination of bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) and an ensemble of multiple convolutional neural networks (CNN). BERT is used to encode the text data into numerical representations that capture the context-aware meaning of words and phrases, while ensemble CNN is used to analyze the encoded text data to identify patterns and relationships relevant to suicide risk. The model is trained on a large corpus of text data from social media and suicide notes and evaluated on a validation set of labeled data. The results of the proposed model perform better than the recent approaches in detecting suicide risk and can potentially be a valuable tool for suicide prevention efforts.