@inproceedings{chan-etal-2025-prompt,
    title = "Prompt Engineering for Capturing Dynamic Mental Health Self States from Social Media Posts",
    author = "Chan, Callum  and
      Khunkhun, Sunveer  and
      Inkpen, Diana  and
      Lossio-Ventura, Juan Antonio",
    editor = "Zirikly, Ayah  and
      Yates, Andrew  and
      Desmet, Bart  and
      Ireland, Molly  and
      Bedrick, Steven  and
      MacAvaney, Sean  and
      Bar, Kfir  and
      Ophir, Yaakov",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025)",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.clpsych-1.22/",
    pages = "256--267",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-226-8",
    abstract = "With the advent of modern Computational Linguistic techniques and the growing societal mental health crisis, we contribute to the field of Clinical Psychology by participating in the CLPsych 2025 shared task. This paper describes the methods and results obtained by the uOttawa team{'}s submission (which included a researcher from the National Institutes of Health in the USA, in addition to three researchers from the University of Ottawa, Canada). The task consists of four subtasks focused on modeling longitudinal changes in social media users' mental states and generating accurate summaries of these dynamic self-states. Through prompt engineering of a modern large language model (Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct), the uOttawa team placed first, sixth, fifth, and second, respectively, for each subtask, amongst the other submissions. This work demonstrates the capacity of modern large language models to recognize nuances in the analysis of mental states and to generate summaries through carefully crafted prompting."
}