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NLP meets Psychotherapy: from Estimating Depression Severity to Estimating the Client’s Well-Being

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NLP Healthcare Research LLM Ethics

Summary

A talk will present two projects related to the use of NLP for estimating a client’s depression severity and well-being. The first project examines emotional coherence between the subjective experience of emotions and emotion expression in therapy using transformer-based emotion recognition models. The second project proposes a semantic pipeline to study depression severity in individuals based on their social media posts by exploring different aggregation methods to answer one of four Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) options per symptom. Why it matters: This research explores how NLP techniques can be applied to mental health assessment, potentially offering new tools for diagnosis and treatment monitoring.

Keywords

NLP · psychotherapy · depression · well-being · emotion recognition

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