@inproceedings{min-etal-2025-speech,
    title = "Speech-Integrated Modeling for Behavioral Coding in Counseling",
    author = "Min, Do June  and
      P{\'e}rez-Rosas, Ver{\'o}nica  and
      Resnicow, Kenneth  and
      Mihalcea, Rada",
    editor = "B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric  and
      Lef{\`e}vre, Fabrice  and
      Asher, Nicholas  and
      Kim, Seokhwan  and
      Merlin, Teva",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Avignon, France",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-orcids-2023-acl/2025.sigdial-1.10/",
    pages = "152--158",
    abstract = "Computational models of psychotherapy often ignore vocal cues by relying solely on text. To address this, we propose MISQ, a framework that integrates speech features directly into language models using a speech encoder and lightweight adapter. MISQ improves behavioral analysis in counseling conversations, achieving {\textasciitilde}5{\%} relative gains over text-only or indirect speech methods{---}underscoring the value of vocal signals like tone and prosody."
}