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According to the World Health Organization, suicide is the third leading cause of death among individuals aged 15\u201329 years, representing a major public health concern for young populations worldwide. In first-contact clinical settings, screening opportunities are often constrained by limited time, sparse patient information, and operational workflows. This study evaluates the feasibility of detecting suicidal behavior from short Spanish-language texts collected during initial screening interviews.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The dataset comprises 374 anonymized records labeled as \u201cno suicidal behavior,\u201d \u201cideation,\u201d \u201cplanning,\u201d or \u201cattempt,\u201d with a strong imbalance toward \u201cattempt,\u201d reflecting operational clinical usage rather than population-representative sampling. To address data scarcity, we applied data augmentation methods (Easy Data Augmentation for Spanish, backtranslation, and large language model-based synthesis), validated through statistical analysis and clinician-based plausibility assessments.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Exploratory analyses revealed highly constrained and overlapping lexical patterns across classes, indicating the challenging nature of the task. A Support Vector Machine achieved 0.53 macro\n                      <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>\n                      in binary classification (\u201csuicidal behavior\u201d vs. \u201cno behavior\u201d), while BETO, a Spanish BERT model, reached 0.36 macro\n                      <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>\n                      in multiclass classification. Under the same text-only conditions, human specialists achieved macro\n                      <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>\n                      scores of 0.29 and 0.15 respectively; however, these results were based on only 20 real texts evaluated with double annotation across five specialists and should therefore be interpreted cautiously.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Although performance is modest compared to studies using full clinical records, these findings suggest that short-text machine learning could support nonspecialists in first-contact settings. Future work should expand datasets and explore multimodal approaches, including voice and text, to improve clinical applicability and early detection.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fninf.2026.1919962","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]],"date-time":"2026-10-07T05:51:07Z","timestamp":1791352267000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Natural language processing for suicidal behavior detection in short Spanish clinical notes from first-contact interviews"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Juan Carlos","family":"Villagomez-Garcia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidad Acad\u00e8mica Tepic, Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica y de Educaci\u00f3n Superior de Ensenada","place":["Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Juan","family":"Mart\u00ednez-Miranda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidad Acad\u00e8mica Tepic, Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica y de Educaci\u00f3n Superior de Ensenada","place":["Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ansel Y.","family":"Rodr\u00edguez-Gonz\u00e1lez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidad Acad\u00e8mica Tepic, Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica y de Educaci\u00f3n Superior de Ensenada","place":["Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"168","DOI":"10.21474\/IJAR01\/15476","article-title":"Knowledge, attitude, and practice in managament of patients with mental health disorders in emergency departments in Makkah region of Saudi Arabia","volume":"10","author":"Al-Nofaiey","year":"2022","journal-title":"Int. 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