Papers by Zac Imel
Logic-driven Indirect Supervision: An Application to Crisis Counseling (2023.acl-long)
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Mattia Medina Grespan, Meghan Broadbent, Xinyao Zhang, Katherine Axford, Brent Kious, Zac Imel, Vivek Srikumar
| Challenge: | Text-based crisis counseling services are increasingly adopted by people seeking confidential mental health support. |
| Approach: | They propose an inexpensive method that exploits declaratively stated structural dependencies between both levels of annotation to improve utterance modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves utterance modeling by 3.5% over a strong multitask baseline. |
Leveraging Open Data and Task Augmentation to Automated Behavioral Coding of Psychotherapy Conversations in Low-Resource Scenarios (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Behavioral coding is a procedure that requires human intervention to be performed manually. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a publicly available conversation-based dataset to transfer knowledge to a low-resource behavioral coding task by meta-learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework predicts target behaviors more accurately than baseline models. |
Observing Dialogue in Therapy: Categorizing and Forecasting Behavioral Codes (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the role of dialogue observers in psychotherapy . the model is based on motivational interviewing, which is effective for treating addictions . |
| Approach: | They propose to model MI behavioral codes for therapists by an observer . they propose to use the observer to forecast therapist and client MI behavioral code . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models for both tasks and reveals tradeoffs in performance. |