A semi-supervised approach for the CLPsych 2016 shared task

Nicolas Rey-Villamizar, Prasha Shrestha, Thamar Solorio, Farig Sadeque, Steven Bethard, Ted Pedersen

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Abstract

The 2016 CLPsych Shared Task is centered on the automatic triage of posts from a mental health forum, au.reachout.com. In this paper, we describe our method for this shared task. We used four different groups of features. These features are designed to capture stylistic and word patterns, together with psychological insights based on the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) word list. We used a multinomial naive Bayes classifier as our base system. We were able to boost the accuracy of our approach by extending the number of training samples using a semi-supervised approach, labeling some of the unlabeled data and extending the number training samples.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016
EditorsKristy Hollingshead, Lyle Ungar
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages171-175
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643549
StatePublished - 2016
Event3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016 - San Diego, United States
Duration: Jun 16 2016 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016

Conference

Conference3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, CLPsych 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period6/16/16 → …

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