Analysing relevance of Discourse Structure for Improved Mental Health Estimation

Navneet Agarwal, Gaël Dias, Sonia Dollfus


Abstract
Automated depression estimation has received significant research attention in recent years as a result of its growing impact on the global community. Within the context of studies based on patient-therapist interview transcripts, most researchers treat the dyadic discourse as a sequence of unstructured sentences, thus ignoring the discourse structure within the learning process. In this paper we propose Multi-view architectures that divide the input transcript into patient and therapist views based on sentence type in an attempt to utilize symmetric discourse structure for improved model performance. Experiments on DAIC-WOZ dataset for binary classification task within depression estimation show advantages of Multi-view architecture over sequential input representations. Our model also outperforms the current state-of-the-art results and provide new SOTA performance on test set of DAIC-WOZ dataset.
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2024.clpsych-1.9
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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2024)
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March
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2024
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St. Julians, Malta
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Andrew Yates, Bart Desmet, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Ayah Zirikly, Steven Bedrick, Sean MacAvaney, Kfir Bar, Molly Ireland, Yaakov Ophir
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127–132
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Navneet Agarwal, Gaël Dias, and Sonia Dollfus. 2024. Analysing relevance of Discourse Structure for Improved Mental Health Estimation. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2024), pages 127–132, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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