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| Challenge: | Existing NLP tools are fragmented, closed-source, or difficult to use . a single sentence can convey emotion, social dynamics, cognitive states, and implicit attitudes . |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source python TOolkit for NLP in clinical psychology. |
| Outcome: | The TOolkit bridges traditional psycholinguistic analysis and modern NLP . it integrates interpretable lexical features with state-of-the-art lightweight transformer models . the toolkit is released under an open-source license and is evaluated through multiple MH–related datasets. |
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