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Philip profiled in Amazon Science

February 09, 2021 Linguistics

Professor Philip Resnik in three-quarters profile, asking a question at a dissertation defense, with three students behind him, smiling.

On using machine learning to help identify suicide risk.

A new article in Amazon Science gives a profile of Philip Resnik and the work he is doing is doing, with the support of and Amazon Machine Learning Research Award, to analyze social media data using the techniques of machine learning, with the aim of making predictions about the mental health of users, including the risk of suicide.

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