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title = "Boosting Distress Support Dialogue Responses with Motivational Interviewing Strategy",
author = "Welivita, Anuradha and
Pu, Pearl",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.334",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.334",
pages = "5411--5432",
abstract = "AI-driven chatbots have become an emerging solution to address psychological distress. Due to the lack of psychotherapeutic data, researchers use dialogues scraped from online peer support forums to train them. But since the responses in such platforms are not given by professionals, they contain both conforming and non-conforming responses. In this work, we attempt to recognize these conforming and non-conforming response types present in online distress-support dialogues using labels adapted from a well-established behavioral coding scheme named Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) code and show how some response types could be rephrased into a more MI adherent form that can, in turn, enable chatbot responses to be more compliant with the MI strategy. As a proof of concept, we build several rephrasers by fine-tuning Blender and GPT3 to rephrase MI non-adherent Advise without permission responses into Advise with permission. We show how this can be achieved with the construction of pseudo-parallel corpora avoiding costs for human labor. Through automatic and human evaluation we show that in the presence of less training data, techniques such as prompting and data augmentation can be used to produce substantially good rephrasings that reflect the intended style and preserve the content of the original text.",
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%T Boosting Distress Support Dialogue Responses with Motivational Interviewing Strategy
%A Welivita, Anuradha
%A Pu, Pearl
%Y Rogers, Anna
%Y Boyd-Graber, Jordan
%Y Okazaki, Naoaki
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.334
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.334
%P 5411-5432
Markdown (Informal)
[Boosting Distress Support Dialogue Responses with Motivational Interviewing Strategy](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.334) (Welivita & Pu, Findings 2023)
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