Challenge: Existing motivational interviewing methods lack the deep understanding of user utterances that is essential to the spirit of motivational interviews.
Approach: They propose to use a German dataset of naturalistic language around health behaviour change to examine the motivational state of the user.
Outcome: The proposed dataset of naturalistic language around health behaviour change is based on a weight loss forum in germany and is evaluated using theoretically grounded motivational interviewing categories.

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