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Publications

NLP for Mental Health

2026

  • UKP_Psycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text
  • Dasha Hryhoryeva, Amaia Zurinaga Gutierrez, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Iryna Gurevych
  • Best Paper Award, Shared Task 2 · 1st place, Subtasks 1 & 2A · SemEval-2026 Workshop, ACL 2026 | [PDF]
  • Graph2Counsel: Clinically Grounded Synthetic Counseling Dialogue Generation from Client Psychological Graphs
  • Aishik Mandal, Hiba Arnaout, Clarissa W. Ong, Juliet Bockhorst, Kate Sheehan, Rachael Moldow, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna Gurevych
  • arXiv, under review | [PDF]
  • Responsible Evaluation of AI for Mental Health
  • Hiba Arnaout, Anmol Goel, H. Andrew Schwartz, Steffen T. Eberhardt, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Gavin Doherty, Brian Schwartz, Wolfgang Lutz, Tim Althoff, Munmun De Choudhury, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Raj Sanjay Shah, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Dirk Hovy, Maria Liakata, Iryna Gurevych
  • ACL 2026 (Main Conference) | [PDF]
  • The Scaffold Effect: How Prompt Framing Drives Apparent Multimodal Gains in Clinical VLM Evaluation
  • Doan Nam Long Vu, Simone Balloccu
  • ExpNLP Workshop | [PDF]
  • Tailored Emotional LLM-Supporter: Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity
  • Chen Cecilia Liu*, Hiba Arnaout*, Nils Kovačić, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Iryna Gurevych
  • EACL 2026 | [PDF]

2025

  • Towards Privacy-aware Mental Health AI Models: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • Aishik Mandal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna Gurevych
  • Nature Computational Science | [PDF] [Nature]
  • A Comprehensive Review of Datasets for Clinical Mental Health AI Systems
  • Aishik Mandal, Prottay Kumar Adhikary, Hiba Arnaout, Iryna Gurevych, Tanmoy Chakraborty
  • arXiv | [PDF]
  • Enhancing Depression Detection via Question-wise Modality Fusion
  • Aishik Mandal, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Thamar Solorio, Iryna Gurevych
  • CLPsych, NAACL 2025 | [PDF]
  • Socratic Reasoning Improves Positive Text Rewriting
  • Anmol Goel, Nico Daheim, Christian Montag, Iryna Gurevych
  • CLPsych, NAACL 2025 | [PDF]
  • MAGneT: Coordinated Multi-Agent Generation of Synthetic Multi-Turn Mental Health Counseling Sessions
  • Aishik Mandal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna Gurevych
  • arXiv | [PDF]
  • Using Large Language Models to Create Personalized Networks From Therapy Sessions
  • Clarissa W. Ong, Hiba Arnaout, Kate Sheehan, Estella Fox, Eugen Owtscharow, Iryna Gurevych
  • arXiv | [PDF]
  • Roleplaying with Structure: Synthetic Therapist-Client Conversation Generation from Questionnaires
  • Doan Nam Long Vu, Rui Tan, Lena Moench, Svenja Jule Francke, Daniel Woiwod, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Sanna Stroth, Tilo Kircher, Christiane Hermann, Udo Dannlowski, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Shaoxiong Ji
  • arXiv | [PDF]

2024

  • Predicting Client Emotions and Therapist Interventions in Psychotherapy Dialogues
  • Tobias Mayer, Neha Warikoo, Amir Eliassaf, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Iryna Gurevych
  • EACL 2024 | [PDF]

2023

  • Semantic Similarity Models for Depression Severity Estimation
  • Anxo Pérez, Neha Warikoo, Kexin Wang, Javier Parapar, Iryna Gurevych
  • EMNLP 2023 | [PDF]

2022

  • NLP meets psychotherapy: Using predicted client emotions and self-reported client emotions to measure emotional coherence
  • Neha Warikoo, Tobias Mayer, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Amir Eliassaf, Shira Haimovitz, Iryna Gurevych
  • PAI4MH 2022 (NeurIPS 2022) | [PDF]
  • GDPR compliant collection of Therapist-Patient-Dialogues
  • Tobias Mayer, Neha Warikoo, Oliver Grimm, Andreas Reif, Iryna Gurevych
  • PAI4MH 2022 (NeurIPS 2022) | [PDF]