Enhancing Depression-Diagnosis-Oriented Chat with Psychological State Tracking

arXiv:2403.09717v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Depression-diagnosis-oriented chat aims to guide patients in self-expression to collect key symptoms for depression detection. Recent work focuses on combining task-oriented dialogue and chitchat to simulate the interview-based depression diagnosis. Whereas, these methods can not well capture the changing information, feelings, or symptoms of the patient during dialogues. Moreover, no explicit framework has been explored to guide the dialogue, which results in some useless communications that affect the experience. In this paper, we propose to …

abstract arxiv chat cs.ai cs.cl cs.cy cs.hc depression detection diagnosis dialogue feelings guide information interview key patient patients state tracking type work