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CLPsych 2018 shared task: Predicting current and future psychological health from childhood essays

  • Veronica E. Lynn
  • , Alissa Goodman
  • , Kate Niederhoffer
  • , Kate Loveys
  • , Philip Resnik
  • , H. Andrew Schwartz
  • Stony Brook University
  • University College London
  • Circadia Labs
  • Qntfy
  • University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

We describe the shared task for the CLPsych 2018 workshop, which focused on predicting current and future psychological health from an essay authored in childhood. Language-based predictions of a person's current health have the potential to supplement traditional psychological assessment such as questionnaires, improving intake risk measurement and monitoring. Predictions of future psychological health can aid with both early detection and the development of preventative care. Research into the mental health trajectory of people, beginning from their childhood, has thus far been an area of little work within the NLP community. This shared task represents one of the first attempts to evaluate the use of early language to predict future health; this has the potential to support a wide variety of clinical health care tasks, from early assessment of lifetime risk for mental health problems, to optimal timing for targeted interventions aimed at both prevention and treatment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Keyboard to Clinic, CLPsych 2018 at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HTL 2018
EditorsKate Loveys, Kate Niederhoffer, Emily Prud�hommeaux, Rebecca Resnik, Philip Resnik
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages37-46
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781948087124
StatePublished - 2018
Event5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, CLPsych 2018 at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HTL 2018 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: Jun 5 2018 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, CLPsych 2018 at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HTL 2018

Conference

Conference5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, CLPsych 2018 at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HTL 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period06/5/18 → …

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