Computational Characterization of Mental States: A Natural Language Processing Approach

FACUNDO CARRILLO

Vancouver

Conferencia; Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; 2017

Association for Computational Linguistics

Psychiatry is an area of medicine thatstrongly bases its diagnoses on the psychi-atrists subjective appreciation. The taskof diagnosis loosely resembles the com-mon pipelines used in supervised learningschema. Therefore, we propose to aug-ment the psychiatrists diagnosis toolboxwith an artificial intelligence system basedon natural language processing and ma-chine learning algorithms. This approachhas been validated in many works in whichthe performance of the diagnosis has beenincreased with the use of automatic classi-fication.