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title = "Detecting Cognitive Distortions from Patient-Therapist Interactions",
author = "Shreevastava, Sagarika and
Foltz, Peter",
editor = "Goharian, Nazli and
Resnik, Philip and
Yates, Andrew and
Ireland, Molly and
Niederhoffer, Kate and
Resnik, Rebecca",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.clpsych-1.17",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.clpsych-1.17",
pages = "151--158",
abstract = "An important part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is to recognize and restructure certain negative thinking patterns that are also known as cognitive distortions. The aim of this project is to detect these distortions using natural language processing. We compare and contrast different types of linguistic features as well as different classification algorithms and explore the limitations of applying these techniques on a small dataset. We find that pre-trained Sentence-BERT embeddings to train an SVM classifier yields the best results with an F1-score of 0.79. Lastly, we discuss how this work provides insights into the types of linguistic features that are inherent in cognitive distortions.",
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%Y Ireland, Molly
%Y Niederhoffer, Kate
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%8 June
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%X An important part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is to recognize and restructure certain negative thinking patterns that are also known as cognitive distortions. The aim of this project is to detect these distortions using natural language processing. We compare and contrast different types of linguistic features as well as different classification algorithms and explore the limitations of applying these techniques on a small dataset. We find that pre-trained Sentence-BERT embeddings to train an SVM classifier yields the best results with an F1-score of 0.79. Lastly, we discuss how this work provides insights into the types of linguistic features that are inherent in cognitive distortions.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Detecting Cognitive Distortions from Patient-Therapist Interactions](https://aclanthology.org/2021.clpsych-1.17) (Shreevastava & Foltz, CLPsych 2021)
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