Table 7 Representative words and phrases generated by traditional LDA model (Blei et al., 2003).

From: Phrase-level pairwise topic modeling to uncover helpful peer responses to online suicidal crises

Topic ID

Representative words

Representative phrases

P.1

Know, school, help, family, friends, care, friend

Long time, go back to school, i do not want to live

P.2

Want, things, time, going, anymore, work, thoughts

Last year, first time, few weeks, suicidal thoughts

P.3

Feel, people, told, stop, actually, home, person

Only one, only time, only person, grocery store

P.4

Live, years, left, talk, right, hate, love, world, said

Best friend, friend of mine, whole life, most people

P.5

Life, like, think, trying, need, living, year, money

Only thing, other people, end my life, entire life

R.1

Like, good, right, school, friends, understand, talking

Talk to someone, make you happy, hey man, best thing

R.2

Better, thoughts, care, little, mother, hear, thought, fact

Same time, best friend, let me know, many others

R.3

Life, help, talk, trying, happy, sounds, true, felt, future

Other things, you want to talk, best way, talk to me

R.4

Family, means, thank, wanted, months, tell, smile

So many people, good thing, talk to people

R.5

People, think, suicide, love, makes, lost, therapist

Long time, do you have, let me tell, pm me if you want

R.6

Person, sorry, live, point, kind, different, telling

High school, good luck, next thing, family member

R.7

Feeling, years, reason, helps, great, look, place, plain

Suicidal thoughts, most people, few years, take care

R.8

Know, things, living, thing, world, probably, hate

Other people, own life, you need someone to talk

R.9

Want, need, time, sure, hard, matter, course, best

Same way, best friends, same thing, tough time

R.10

Feel, depression, work, thanks, hope, change, nice

Few months, do you think, even if it is, good ones