Predicting Client Emotions and Therapist Interventions in Psychotherapy Dialogues (2024.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on the role of client emotions and therapist interventions in predicting treatment outcomes from psychotherapy dialogues. |
| Approach: | They propose to model the therapist-intervention-prediction-based dialogue acts at the utterance-level using a pan-theoretical schema and fine-tuned language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model predicts the coherence between client self-reports on emotion and utterance-level emotions. |
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