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Addressing the challenges posed by the unstructured nature of social media data, we present a novel Chinese-based dual-channel model, DSI-BTCNN, which leverages deep learning to discern patterns indicative of suicidal ideation. Our model is designed to process Chinese data and capture the nuances of text locality, context, and logical structure through a fine-grained text enhancement approach. It features a complex parallel architecture with multiple convolution kernels, operating on two distinct task channels to mine relevant features. We propose an information gain-based IDFN fusion mechanism. This approach efficiently allocates computational resources to the key features associated with suicide by assessing the change in entropy before and after feature partitioning. Evaluations on a customized dataset reveal that our method achieves an accuracy of 89.64%, a precision of 92.84%, an F1-score of 89.24%, and an AUC of 96.50%, surpassing TextCNN and BiLSTM models by an average of 4.66%, 12.85%, 3.08%, and 1.66%, respectively. Notably, our proposed model has an entropy value of 81.75, which represents a 17.53% increase compared to the original DSI-BTCNN model, indicating a more robust detection capability. This enhanced detection capability is vital for real-time social media monitoring, offering a promising tool for early intervention and potentially life-saving support.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27020116","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,24]],"date-time":"2025-01-24T05:24:31Z","timestamp":1737696271000},"page":"116","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Mining Suicidal Ideation in Chinese Social Media: A Dual-Channel Deep Learning Model with Information Gain Optimization"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Xiuyang","family":"Meng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Forestry\u2013Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-2759-1400","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaohui","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Forestry\u2013Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Forestry\u2013Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shiyi","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chunling","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Forestry\u2013Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mairui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Forestry\u2013Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingran","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Forestry\u2013Oriented Intelligent Information Processing of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"100225","DOI":"10.1016\/j.osnem.2022.100225","article-title":"Early depression detection in social media based on deep learning and underlying emotions","volume":"31","author":"Maia","year":"2022","journal-title":"Online Soc. 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