Ava Yahyapour
2026
CUNY at CLPsych 2026: A Pipeline Approach to Classification and Summarization of Mental Health Change
Amirmohammad Ziaei Bideh | Shameed Job | Ava Yahyapour | Alla Rozovskaya
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)
Amirmohammad Ziaei Bideh | Shameed Job | Ava Yahyapour | Alla Rozovskaya
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)
We describe our submission to the CLPsych 2026 Shared Task on capturing and characterizing mental health changes through social media timeline dynamics. To infer the dominant self-states in posts (Tasks 1.1 and 1.2), we ensemble in-context learning of three open-weight large language models using majority voting. For predicting moments of change in a timeline (Task 2), we train supervised classifiers on features derived from Task 1.1 predictions. To summarize the patterns of mood dynamics and their progression over time within a timeline (Task 3.1), we augment in-context example labels predicted by upstream systems (Tasks 1.1, 1.2, and 2), yielding performance gains over zero-shot and unaugmented in-context learning baselines. Our submission ranked first on Task 1.1, fourth on Task 1.2, fourth on Task 2, and third on Task 3.1.