PsyDial: A Large-scale Long-term Conversational Dataset for Mental Health Support (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for mental health counseling use a privacy-preserving data reconstruction method to reconstruct client-counselor dialogues without removing personally identifiable information due to privacy concerns. |
| Approach: | They propose a privacy-preserving data reconstruction method that reconstructs real-world client-counselor dialogues while mitigating privacy concerns. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces privacy risks while maintaining dialogue diversity and conversational exchange while maintaining conversational diversity. |
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