Towards Comprehensive Language Analysis for Clinically Enriched Spontaneous Dialogue

Baris Karacan, Ankit Aich, Avery Quynh, Amy Pinkham, Philip Harvey, Colin Depp, Natalie Parde

Abstract
Contemporary NLP has rapidly progressed from feature-based classification to fine-tuning and prompt-based techniques leveraging large language models. Many of these techniques remain understudied in the context of real-world, clinically enriched spontaneous dialogue. We fill this gap by systematically testing the efficacy and overall performance of a wide variety of NLP techniques ranging from feature-based to in-context learning on transcribed speech collected from patients with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and healthy controls taking a focused, clinically-validated language test. We observe impressive utility of a range of feature-based and language modeling techniques, finding that these approaches may provide a plethora of information capable of upholding clinical truths about these subjects. Building upon this, we establish pathways for future research directions in automated detection and understanding of psychiatric conditions.
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2024.lrec-main.1430
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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16457–16472
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Baris Karacan, Ankit Aich, Avery Quynh, Amy Pinkham, Philip Harvey, Colin Depp, and Natalie Parde. 2024. Towards Comprehensive Language Analysis for Clinically Enriched Spontaneous Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 16457–16472, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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