collaborators

13 papers

cs.CL2026

Move by Move: Measuring and Steering How LLMs Conduct Psychotherapy

Afonso Baldo, Hugo Pitorro, Areti Vassilopoulos +5

Users increasingly turn to large language models for emotional support, yet little is known about how these models actually conduct a psychotherapy interaction. We introduce an ont…

cs.AI2026

Risk Governance for Generative AI Mental Health Support: A Multi-Turn Safety Architecture

Anabela C. Areias, Catarina Botelho, António Farinhas +7

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for emotional support despite lacking mechanisms to safely govern evolving mental health risk. Existing safety approaches primari…

cs.CL2026

EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages

Nicolas Boizard, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Duarte M. Alves +16

General-purpose multilingual vector representations, used in retrieval, regression and classification, are traditionally obtained from bidirectional encoder models. Despite their w…

cs.CL2026

EuroLLM-22B: Technical Report

Miguel Moura Ramos, Duarte M. Alves, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef +15

This report presents EuroLLM-22B, a large language model trained from scratch to support the needs of European citizens by covering all 24 official European Union languages and 11…

cs.AI2026

MindGuard: Guardrail Classifiers for Multi-Turn Mental Health Support

António Farinhas, Nuno M. Guerreiro, José Pombal +6

Large language models are increasingly used for mental health support, yet their conversational coherence alone does not ensure clinical appropriateness. Existing general-purpose s…

cs.CL2025

MindEval: Benchmarking Language Models on Multi-turn Mental Health Support

José Pombal, Maya D'Eon, Nuno M. Guerreiro +3

Demand for mental health support through AI chatbots is surging, though current systems present several limitations, like sycophancy or overvalidation, and reinforcement of maladap…