Papers by Mohamed Abdelwahab
Generation, Distillation and Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing-Style Reflections with a Foundational Language Model (2024.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a counselling technique used to guide people towards behaviour change. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for distilling reflections from a foundational language model into smaller models that can be owned and controlled. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves 100% success rate on hold-out test set and 90% on the GPT-2 XL. |
A Fully Generative Motivational Interviewing Counsellor Chatbot for Moving Smokers Towards the Decision to Quit (2025.findings-acl)
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Zafarullah Mahmood, Soliman Ali, Jiading Zhu, Mohamed Abdelwahab, Michelle Yu Collins, Sihan Chen, Yi Cheng Zhao, Jodi Wolff, Osnat C. Melamed, Nadia Minian, Marta Maslej, Carolynne Cooper, Matt Ratto, Peter Selby, Jonathan Rose
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are being used to provide automated talk therapy . however, it is crucial to know if they would be effective and adhere to known standards. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to automate talk therapy with a focus on tobacco addiction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed chatbot showed adherence to MI standards in 98% of utterances, higher than human counsellors. |