M3TCM: Multi-modal Multi-task Context Model for Utterance Classification in Motivational Interviews

arXiv:2404.03312v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate utterance classification in motivational interviews is crucial to automatically understand the quality and dynamics of client-therapist interaction, and it can serve as a key input for systems mediating such interactions. Motivational interviews exhibit three important characteristics. First, there are two distinct roles, namely client and therapist. Second, they are often highly emotionally charged, which can be expressed both in text and in prosody. Finally, context is of central importance to classify any given utterance. …

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