The study evaluates large language models for assessing suicide risk in Arabic crisis helpline calls, comparing Arabic and English models. Using de‑identified transcripts from Lebanon’s National Lifeline, the researchers fine‑tuned instruction‑tuned LLMs and transformer encoders, achieving a macro‑F1 of 81.19 and ROC‑AUC of 90.61 for high‑risk calls in Arabic, and 85.00/92.59 in English. The results show that high‑risk calls are more distinguishable than at‑risk calls, and translating to English does not degrade performance, indicating potential for operator‑facing tools.
A new language‑processing tool has been developed to estimate suicide risk from natural language. By analyzing text, the tool can identify individuals at the highest risk. This capability could enable faster and more targeted interventions.
The paper introduces DistressBench, a benchmark comprising 718 English clinician-authored conversations covering 23 self-harm subcategories, each evaluated against a weighted rubric across seven crisis-support dimensions. Models are scored by the fraction of criteria they satisfy, revealing that the best models meet 88.4% of weighted criteria while clinicians achieve 98.7%. The study highlights gaps in crisis response, notably that 35.3% of conversations where crisis is recognized fail to route users to human help, underscoring the need to evaluate models on supportive care rather than mere refusal.
arXiv:2608.01291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present ArabicDialectSafety, a human-curated Arabic safety dataset of 25,071 prompts covering six Arabic varieties: Modern Standard Arabic, Syri...
arXiv:2603.04410v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While different stakeholders are trying to leverage Arabic Language Models (ALMs), safety alignment in ALMs remains largely underexplored, hi...
arXiv:2608.21985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the adoption of large language models (LLMs) grows in Arabic-speaking regions, ensuring their safety and cultural alignment is increasingly critical...
The paper presents a system for the IEEE BigData 2026 Cup on Explainable Suicide Risk Assessment on Social Media. It tackles three tasks—risk-level classification, evidence phrase extraction, and multi-label factor identification—using Qwen2.5-Instruct models adapted with quantized low-rank adaptation (QLoRA) and an answer-masked causal language-model objective. The final system achieved a composite score of 0.7738, with 0.8089 on Task 1 and 0.6919 on Task 2, demonstrating that task‑specific training and tailored aggregation improve performance across the three tasks.
VEILED‑SH is a new benchmark for evaluating AI responses to indirect expressions of suicide, self‑harm, and distress. It contains 10,003 prompts drawn from counselor chats, forum posts, platform searches, and triage, all grounded in Singaporean contexts and public datasets. The dataset uses an expert‑validated multi‑label taxonomy to classify intent, communicative function, and response behavior, and it includes six automated profiles calibrated to peer‑support practitioners and clinicians for proxy‑alignment scoring.
The paper introduces REGLAT, an ensemble-based model that integrates named entity recognition (GLiNER) with a fine‑tuned MARBERT classifier to detect harmful content in Arabic. It classifies user prompts into seven harm categories, achieving a macro‑F1 of 0.886 and accuracy of 0.897 on the ArGuard 2026 development set, with slightly lower scores on blind test sets. The study highlights that combining explicit entity extraction with contextual language modeling improves fine‑grained harmful content detection, though distinguishing closely related categories remains difficult.
HerHealthEval is a controlled evaluation framework that tests multilingual understanding of women's-health communication across English, French, and Modern Standard Arabic. It provides six communicative forms—canonical, clinical, layperson, indirect or hedged, emotionally concerned, and deliberately under-specified—each conveying the same clinical concern except the under-specified form omits details to assess clarification needs. The study evaluates multilingual instruction models and QLoRA-adapted variants on tasks such as concern classification, risk calibration, clarification behavior, parse compliance, and cross-form consistency, revealing that high aggregate accuracy can mask safety-relevant failures and that language-invariant risk labels improve performance.
arXiv:2606. 10380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world crisis intervention is inherently conversational, yet existing research largely focuses on static texts.
arXiv:2606. 28334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and social media data have led to growing optimism about the ability to detect suicide risk at scale.
arXiv:2607. 15861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Moderation systems increasingly rely on external toxicity tools, but those tools are unreliable under code-mixing, transliteration, slang, and language mismatch.