Leveraging Open Data and Task Augmentation to Automated Behavioral Coding of Psychotherapy Conversations in Low-Resource Scenarios (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Behavioral coding is a procedure that requires human intervention to be performed manually. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a publicly available conversation-based dataset to transfer knowledge to a low-resource behavioral coding task by meta-learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework predicts target behaviors more accurately than baseline models. |
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