Sociolinguistique et Analyse du Discours de personnes SUIcidaires : analyse interdisciplinaire d'un grand corpus de tchat de prévention du suicide

The research project SADSui (Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis of suicidal persons: interdisciplinary analyses of a big suicide prevention chat corpus) consists in an interactional analyses of a suicide prevention chat corpus in France (10 years corpus) and in Japan (corpus in progress). The analytical work is interdisciplinary, joining manual annotations (linguistics), automatic analysis (computer science) and content analysis (psychology). The aim is to analyze the dysfunction and the felicity conditions of these particular interactions. The ultimate aim is to understand better the functioning of the sensible conversations and to construct a chatbot based on these real data, so to improve the training of the voluntary hearers of the prevention associations, and, at the end, to be able to integrate inside the devise some warnings for the hearers to improve their attention on specifically difficult or complex moments. Moreover, our analysis will be completed with interviews and investigations among the voluntary hearers about the chat device, their personal experience and our analyses, and among the callers (taking for example the investigation made for the Samaritans in England (https://www.samaritans.org/).