% --- PsyDefDetect Shared Task & Related ---

@inproceedings{na-etal-2026-psydefdetect,
  title = "Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026:
           Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms
           in Supportive Conversations",
  author = "Na, Hongbin and Wang, Zimu and Chen, Zhaoming and
            Hua, Yining and Gao, Rena and Yang, Kailai and
            Chen, Ling and Wang, Wei and Ji, Shaoxiong and
            Torous, John and Ananiadou, Sophia",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing",
  month = jul,
  year = "2026",
  address = "San Diego, USA",
  publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}

@inproceedings{na-etal-2025-survey,
  title = {A Survey of Large Language Models in Psychotherapy:
           Current Landscape and Future Directions},
  author = {Na, Hongbin and Hua, Yining and Wang, Zimu and
            Shen, Tao and Yu, Beibei and Wang, Lilin and
            Wang, Wei and Torous, John and Chen, Ling},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational
               Linguistics: ACL 2025},
  month = jul,
  year = {2025},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.385/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.385},
  pages = {7362--7376},
}

@inproceedings{na-etal-2026-psydefconv,
  title = "You Never Know a Person, You Only Know Their Defenses:
           Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms
           in Supportive Conversations",
  author = "Na, Hongbin and Wang, Zimu and Chen, Zhaoming and
            Zhou, Peilin and Hua, Yining and Zhou, Grace Ziqi and
            Zhang, Haiyang and Shen, Tao and Wang, Wei and
            Torous, John and Ji, Shaoxiong and Chen, Ling",
  booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026",
  month = jul,
  year = "2026",
  address = "San Diego, USA",
  publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}

% --- Emotional Support Dialogue ---

@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-towards-emotional,
  title = {Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems},
  author = {Liu, Siyang and Zheng, Chujie and Demasi, Orianna and
            Sabour, Sahand and Li, Yu and Yu, Zhou and
            Jiang, Yong and Huang, Minlie},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  month = aug,
  year = {2021},
  address = {Online},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.269/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.269},
  pages = {3469--3478},
}

@inproceedings{rashkin-etal-2019-towards,
  title = {Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: A New Benchmark and Dataset},
  author = {Rashkin, Hannah and Smith, Eric Michael and Li, Margaret and Boureau, Y-Lan},
  editor = {Korhonen, Anna and Traum, David and M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'i}s},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  month = jul,
  year = {2019},
  address = {Florence, Italy},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/P19-1534/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/P19-1534},
  pages = {5370--5381},
}

@misc{liu-etal-2022-empathetic,
  title = {Empathetic Response Generation with State Management},
  author = {Liu, Yuhan and Gao, Jun and Du, Jiachen and Zhou, Lanjun and Xu, Ruifeng},
  year = {2022},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2205.03676},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03676},
}

% --- PEFT Methods ---

@inproceedings{hu-etal-2022-lora,
  title = {{LoRA}: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author = {Hu, Edward J. and Shen, Yelong and Wallis, Phillip and Allen-Zhu, Zeyuan and Li, Yuanzhi and Wang, Shean and Wang, Lu and Chen, Weizhu},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=nZeVKeeFYf9},
}

@inproceedings{dettmers-etal-2023-qlora,
  title = {{QLoRA}: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized {LLMs}},
  author = {Dettmers, Tim and Pagnoni, Artidoro and Holtzman, Ari and Zettlemoyer, Luke},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {36},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314},
}

@inproceedings{liu-etal-2024-aflora,
  title = {{AFLoRA}: Adaptive Freezing of Low Rank Adaptation in Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Models},
  author = {Liu, Zeyu and Kundu, Souvik and Li, Anni and Wan, Junrui and Jiang, Lianghao and Beerel, Peter A.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
  month = aug,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Bangkok, Thailand},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-short.16/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.acl-short.16},
  pages = {161--167},
}

@inproceedings{ren-etal-2024-melora,
  title = {{MELoRA}: Mini-Ensemble Low-Rank Adapters for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning},
  author = {Ren, Pengjie and Shi, Chengshun and Wu, Shiguang and Zhang, Mengqi and Ren, Zhaochun and de Rijke, Maarten and Chen, Zhumin and Pei, Jiahuan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  month = aug,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Bangkok, Thailand},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.168/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.168},
  pages = {3052--3064},
}

% --- Long-Tail Learning ---

@inproceedings{lin-etal-2017-focal,
  title = {Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection},
  author = {Lin, Tsung-Yi and Goyal, Priya and Girshick, Ross and He, Kaiming and Doll{\'a}r, Piotr},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Computer Vision ({ICCV})},
  year = {2017},
  pages = {2980--2988},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCV.2017.324},
}

@inproceedings{cao-etal-2019-learning-imbalanced,
  title = {Learning Imbalanced Datasets with Label-Distribution-Aware Margin Loss},
  author = {Cao, Kaidi and Wei, Colin and Gaidon, Adrien and Arechiga, Nikos and Ma, Tengyu},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {32},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/hash/621461af90cadfdaf0e8d4cc25129f91-Abstract.html},
}

@article{chawla-etal-2002-smote,
  title = {{SMOTE}: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique},
  author = {Chawla, Nitesh V. and Bowyer, Kevin W. and Hall, Lawrence O. and Kegelmeyer, W. Philip},
  journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  volume = {16},
  pages = {321--357},
  year = {2002},
  doi = {10.1613/jair.953},
}

@inproceedings{peng-etal-2024-text-grafting,
  title = {Text Grafting: Near-Distribution Weak Supervision for Minority Classes in Text Classification},
  author = {Peng, Letian and Gu, Yi and Dong, Chengyu and Wang, Zihan and Shang, Jingbo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  month = nov,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.219/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.219},
  pages = {3741--3752},
}

@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2024-multistage,
  title = {Multi-Stage Balanced Distillation: Addressing Long-Tail Challenges in Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation},
  author = {Zhou, Yuhang and Zhu, Jing and Xu, Paiheng and Liu, Xiaoyu and Wang, Xiyao and Koutra, Danai and Ai, Wei and Huang, Furong},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024},
  month = nov,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.190/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.190},
  pages = {3315--3333},
}

@inproceedings{menon-etal-2021-longtail,
  title = {Long Tail Learning via Logit Adjustment},
  author = {Menon, Aditya Krishna and Jayasumana, Sadeep and Rawat, Ankit Singh and Jain, Himanshu and Veit, Andreas and Kumar, Sanjiv},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07314},
}

% --- Prompting ---

@inproceedings{wei-etal-2022-chain,
  title = {Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models},
  author = {Wei, Jason and Wang, Xuezhi and Schuurmans, Dale and Bosma, Maarten and Ichter, Brian and Xia, Fei and Chi, Ed and Le, Quoc and Zhou, Denny},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {35},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903},
}

@inproceedings{wu-etal-2024-knowlab,
  title = {{KnowLab\_AIMed} at {MEDIQA-CORR} 2024: Chain-of-Thought Prompting Strategies for Medical Error Detection and Correction},
  author = {Wu, Zhaolong and Hasan, Abul and Wu, Jinge and Kim, Yunsoo and Cheung, Jason P.Y. and Zhang, Teng and Wu, Honghan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop},
  month = jun,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Mexico City, Mexico},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.clinicalnlp-1.33/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.clinicalnlp-1.33},
  pages = {353--359},
}

@inproceedings{alzghoul-etal-2024-cld-mec,
  title = {{CLD-MEC} at {MEDIQA-CORR} 2024 Task: {GPT-4} Multi-Stage Clinical Chain of Thought Prompting for Medical Errors Detection and Correction},
  author = {Alzghoul, Renad M. and Tabaza, Abdulrahman and Abdelhaq, Aya and Altamimi, Ahmad},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop},
  month = jun,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Mexico City, Mexico},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.clinicalnlp-1.52/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.clinicalnlp-1.52},
  pages = {537--556},
}

@misc{zhang-etal-2023-instruction-tuning,
  title = {Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models: A Survey},
  author = {Zhang, Shengyu and Dong, Linfeng and Li, Xiaoya and Zhang, Sen and Sun, Xiaofei and Wang, Shuhe and Li, Jiwei and Hu, Runyi and Zhang, Tianwei and Wu, Fei and Wang, Guoyin},
  year = {2023},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2308.10792},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10792},
}

% --- Clinical Grounding (DMRS) ---

@incollection{perry-henry-2004-dmrs,
  title = {Studying Defense Mechanisms in Psychotherapy using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales},
  author = {Perry, J. Christopher and Henry, Michelle},
  editor = {Hentschel, Uwe and Smith, Gudmund and Draguns, Juris G. and Ehlers, W.},
  booktitle = {Defense Mechanisms: Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives},
  series = {Advances in Psychology},
  volume = {136},
  pages = {165--192},
  year = {2004},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address = {Amsterdam; Boston},
  isbn = {0-444-51263-2},
}

@book{vaillant-1992-ego,
  title = {Ego Mechanisms of Defense: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers},
  author = {Vaillant, George E.},
  year = {1992},
  publisher = {American Psychiatric Publishing},
}

@book{di-giuseppe-perry-2021-dmrs-handbook,
  title = {The Defense Mechanism Rating Scales: A Therapist's Guide},
  author = {Di Giuseppe, Mariagrazia and Perry, J. Christopher},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address = {London, UK},
}



% --- Miscellaneous ---

@inproceedings{wolf-etal-2020-transformers,
  title = {Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing},
  author = {Wolf, Thomas and Debut, Lysandre and Sanh, Victor and Chaumond, Julien and Delangue, Clement and Moi, Anthony and Cistac, Pierric and Rault, Tim and Louf, R{\'e}mi and Funtowicz, Morgan and Davison, Joe and Shleifer, Sam and von Platen, Patrick and Ma, Clara and Jernite, Yacine and Plu, Julien and Xu, Canwen and Le Scao, Teven and Gugger, Sylvain and Drame, Mariama and Lhoest, Quentin and Rush, Alexander M.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},
  month = oct,
  year = {2020},
  address = {Online},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.6/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-demos.6},
  pages = {38--45},
}

@inproceedings{ji-etal-2022-mentalbert,
  title = {{MentalBERT}: Publicly Available Pretrained Language Models for Mental Healthcare},
  author = {Ji, Shaoxiong and Zhang, Tianlin and Ansari, Luna and Xu, Jie and Zhao, Chao and Wu, Edward},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  month = jun,
  year = {2022},
  address = {Marseille, France},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-main.632/},
  pages = {7184--7190},
}

@misc{mistral2024ministral,
  title = {Ministral and Mistral {NeMo}: Instructions and Technical Report},
  author = {{Mistral AI}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://mistral.ai/news/ministral-and-mistral-nemo/},
}
