Building a suicidal tweet classifier using NLP

Using Natural Language Processing to predict Suicide Ideation on Twitter.

Over the years, suicide has been one of the major causes of death worldwide, According to Wikipedia, Suicide resulted in 828,000 global deaths in 2015, an increase from 712,000 deaths in 1990. This makes suicide the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. There is also increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behaviour. Using Natural Language Processing, a field in Machine Learning, I…