Table 1.
Message type | Underlying perspective | ||
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Problem and suffering | Solution and coping | |
Personal experiences first or third person | Suicidal ideation and attemptsa | Coping (Papageno)a | |
News about experiences and behavior | News suicidal ideation and attempts | News coping | |
Experience of bereaved | Bereaved negative | Bereaved coping | |
Case reports | Suicide cases (Werther)a | Lives saved | |
Calls for action | Awarenessa | Preventiona | |
Irrelevanta | |||
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Suicide other | Murder-suicides, history, fiction, not being suicidal, and opinions | |
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Off-topicb | Bombings, euthanasia, jokes, metaphors, and band or song names |
aThe 6 main categories classified in machine learning task 1.
bTask 2 distinguished the off-topic category from all other categories (see Classification Tasks).