Anthony R Hills
2026
Overview of the CLPsych 2026 Shared Task: Capturing and Characterizing Mental Health Changes through Social Media Timeline Dynamics
Iqra Ali | Talia Tseriotou | Guy Dvir | Callum Chan | Yuxiang Zhou | Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura | Ayal Klein | Aya Shamir | Dan Sayda | Anthony R Hills | Ayah Zirikly | Diana Inkpen | Dana Atzil-Slonim | Maria Liakata
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)
Iqra Ali | Talia Tseriotou | Guy Dvir | Callum Chan | Yuxiang Zhou | Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura | Ayal Klein | Aya Shamir | Dan Sayda | Anthony R Hills | Ayah Zirikly | Diana Inkpen | Dana Atzil-Slonim | Maria Liakata
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)
We provide an overview of the CLPsych 2026 Shared Task, which focuses on capturing and characterizing mental health dynamics from social media timelines through structured modeling of self-states. This year advances the longitudinal paradigm set by prior CLPsych shared tasks (2022, 2025), by integrating fine-grained psychological representation using the MIND framework. The task is organized into three main components: (1) post-level identification of adaptive and maladaptive self-states through ྀི elements and sub-elements, along with estimation of their presence; (2) timeline-level detection of Moments of Change, including both abrupt switches and gradual escalations based on ABCd element and sub-element combinations; and (3) sequence-level modeling, involving summarization of change processes over time and identification of recurrent dynamic signatures.