Daniele Montagnani
2026
PersonalityDBench: A Dataset for Personality Disorders - from Modeling to Controlled Generation
Federico Ravenda | Seyed Ali Bahrainian | Daniele Montagnani | Antonietta Mira | Andrea Raballo
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Federico Ravenda | Seyed Ali Bahrainian | Daniele Montagnani | Antonietta Mira | Andrea Raballo
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Personality disorders (PDs) are a complex class of mental health (MH) conditions characterized by persistent patterns of cognition, behavior, and emotional regulation that deviate from cultural norms. While social media has become a valuable resource for MH research, NLP has largely focused on more prevalent conditions (e.g., depression), leaving PDs underexplored. In this work, we introduce PersonalityDBench, a large-scale, clinically grounded dataset that supports multidimensional study of personality pathology, and standardized, reproducible evaluation of LLM steering toward clinically grounded behavioral targets. The dataset comprises two parts: (1) PRISMA and (2) PersonaDSteering. (1) PRISMA (PeRsonality dISorder MAnifestations) is a clinically annotated collection of social media content spanning the full spectrum of PDs. It links clinically validated diagnostic criteria and dimensional trait frameworks with computational annotation and analysis methods to support fine-grained, multidimensional study of how PDs manifests in naturalistic, free-form language. Building on PRISMA, (2) PersonaDSteering is a benchmark for LLM steering evaluation that operationalizes clinically grounded PD profiles into structured behavioral elicitation tasks, enabling multidimensional steerability assessment beyond single-behavior settings and supporting PD-consistent persona construction for simulated patient generation. This dataset may have application in the study and modeling of PD and powering personality-specific text generation for adaptive, personalized chat systems.
TONY: an open-source TOolkit for Nlp in psYchology
Federico Ravenda | Sofia Irene Ravenda | Volodymyr Karpenko | Daniele Montagnani | Andrea Raballo | Antonietta Mira
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Federico Ravenda | Sofia Irene Ravenda | Volodymyr Karpenko | Daniele Montagnani | Andrea Raballo | Antonietta Mira
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
The growing demand for Mental Health (MH) services highlights the need for scalable computational tools, yet progress in computational psychology is hindered by scarce sensitive data, complex assessment procedures, and high technical barriers. While language is a well-established marker of different MH conditions, existing NLP solutions are often fragmented, closed-source, or difficult to use, limiting their adoption in interdisciplinary research.We present TONY, an open-source, python TOolkit for NLP in clinical psYchology. TONY bridges traditional psycholinguistic analysis and modern NLP by combining interpretable lexical features with state-of-the-art lightweight transformer models within a unified and easy-to-use framework. This hybrid approach enables robust and transparent text analysis without relying on large-scale models or closed-source software.TONY is designed for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of NLP and MH, facilitating collaboration across disciplines. Compared to the few existing systems, TONY offers a more comprehensive and exhaustive solution, reducing the barrier to entry through a unified, modular, and reproducible pipeline that integrates classical and neural approaches in a single open framework. The toolkit is released under an open-source license and is evaluated through multiple MH–related datasets, demonstrating its flexibility and effectiveness in low-resource settings