Challenge: Existing methods for identifying suicidal ideation in phone conversations are difficult to use because of their long duration and noisy nature.
Approach: They propose a self-adaptive approach that identifies the most critical utterances that the NLP model can more easily distinguish.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms the baseline models in overall performance with an F score of 66.01% and significantly higher F-score in detecting the most dangerous cases.

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