Application to use the UMD Reddit Suicidality Dataset, Version 2& CLPsych 2024 Dataset in the CLPsych 2024 Shared Task
Background
The CLPsych 2024 shared task will be making use of the UMD Reddit Suicidality Dataset, which was created byresearchers at the University of Maryland and is described at
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/umd_reddit_suicidality_dataset.html.
Although Reddit is a site for anonymous discussion and additional steps have been taken to de-identify the data, Reddit
data (and particularly data related to mental health) can still be thought of as sensitive. As described on the UMD Reddit
Suicidality Dataset web page, therefore, an application process has been put in place in collaboration with the American
Association of Suicidology for sharing of the dataset. For the CLPsych 2024 shared task we are using a modified
version of that application.
Note that this application is only for use of the data as part of the CLPsych 2024 shared task. If you wish to continue
using the data after the CLPsych 2024 workshop, or to use it for other purposes, you will need to submit an applicationthat also includes getting IRB or equivalent ethical review (see details here). However, for the CLPsych shared task, you
can use the streamlined application below without needing to get your own IRB/ethical review approval.
Application for Use of the Dataset in the CLPsych 2024 Shared Task
I am applying for access to the UMD Reddit Suicidality Dataset and CLPsych 2024 data in order to participate
in the CLPsych 2024 shared task. Other members of my team are as follows (or say N/A, for “not applicable”, ifyou are participating solo)::1.
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Please list team members here one per line with their contact email addresses

My team and I confirm the following:
1. We will use this dataset ONLY for the CLPsych shared task and for the duration of the shared task. We
will delete all dataset files and models that were trained on the dataset immediately after CLPsych 2024
workshop date (March 22nd, 2024)
2. During the CLPsych 2024 dataset we can use the data only for the sole purpose of participating in theshared task. (If you would like to use the dataset for your ongoing research, please submit the official
application for the dataset access using the instructions posted here:
https://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/umd_reddit_suicidality_dataset.html)

3. We confirm that we have read Benton, A., Coppersmith, G. and Dredze, M. (2017), “Ethical research
protocols for social media health research”, in Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in NaturalLanguage Processing (pp. 94-102), http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1612, and that in our use of thisdataset we are committed to maintaining that paper’s broad ethical principles.
4. We commit to citing the "University of Maryland Reddit Suicidality Dataset", in any publications using
or discussing this dataset using including appropriate references (you can find BibTeX entries on the datasetweb page):
Han-Chin Shing, Suraj Nair, Ayah Zirikly, Meir Friedenberg, Hal Daumé III, and PhilipResnik, "Expert, Crowdsourced, and Machine Assessment of Suicide Risk via Online
Postings", Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and ClinicalPsychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, pages 25–36, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5, 2018.
Ayah Zirikly, Philip Resnik, Özlem Uzuner, and Kristy Hollingshead. 2019. CLPsych 2019
shared task: Predicting the degree of suicide risk in Reddit posts. In Proceedings of the Sixth
Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych'19), 2019
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL), Minneapolis, June 6, 2019.
5. We commit to acknowledging the assistance of the American Association of Suicidology inmaking the dataset available, in any publications.
The data and any derivatives will be stored only on password-protected servers at ____________________________________________________________________________________________[MY ORGANIZATION OR LIST MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS] where access will be restricted tome and my team using Unix group permissions or a reasonable equivalent;6.

Any copies of the data or derivatives of it that we create will be accompanied by a clear README.txt
file identifying me as the contact person and stating that further re-distribution is not to take place without
contacting me first.
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We will refer any requests for redistribution of the data (outside my own team) to the providers of thedataset, rather than providing the data ourselves.
9. We commit to NOT submitting all or part of the data to any platform that would potentially store thedata or use it as training data (e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT).

Signature by contact person/team lead:
Affirmed:_______________________________________________________ (please sign)_______________________________________________________ (please print name)_______________________________________________________ (please print email address)