Stephen Swift


2025

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From Evidence Mining to Meta-Prediction: a Gradient of Methodologies for Task-Specific Challenges in Psychological Assessment
Federico Ravenda | Fawzia-Zehra Kara-Isitt | Stephen Swift | Antonietta Mira | Andrea Raballo
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025)

Large Language Models are increasingly used in the medical field, particularly in psychiatry where language plays a fundamental role in diagnosis. This study explores the use of open-source LLMs within the MIND framework. Specifically, we implemented a mixed-methods approach for the CLPsych 2025 shared task: (1) we used a combination of retrieval and few-shot learning approaches to highlight evidence of mental states within the text and to generate comprehensive summaries for post-level and timeline-level analysis, allowing for effective tracking of psychological state fluctuations over time (2) we developed different types of ensemble methods for well-being score prediction, combining Machine Learning and Optimization approaches on top of zero-shot LLMs predictions. Notably, for the latter task, our approach demonstrated the best performance within the competition.