5 papers
CAIA in Practice: Field Evaluation of an AI-Assisted Support System for Text-Based Online Counselling
Philipp Steigerwald, Nico Bienlein, Jennifer Burghardt +3
Rising global demand for mental health support creates significant service delivery challenges, with asynchronous email counselling serving as a crucial low-threshold channel for a…
Nürnberg NLP @ GermEval Shared Task 2026: Harmful Content Detection in German Social Media through Error-Independent LLM Voters
Philipp Steigerwald, Eric Rudolph, Jens Albrecht
Harmful content in German social media does real-world damage, from calls to action to criminal defamation. The GermEval 2026 shared task scores its detection in four subtasks. The…
GEMCo: A Validated, Ethically Releasable Proxy for Inaccessible Counselling Data
Philipp Steigerwald, Eric Rudolph, Mara Stieler +3
This paper presents GEMCo, a releasable, human-written proxy for inaccessible counselling data: 86 complete German e-mail counselling conversations (728 messages), expert-authored…
Transition-Matrix Regularization for Next Dialogue Act Prediction in Counselling Conversations
Eric Rudolph, Philipp Steigerwald, Jens Albrecht
This paper studies how empirical dialogue-flow statistics can be incorporated into Next Dialogue Act Prediction (NDAP). A KL regularization term is proposed that aligns predicted a…
OnCoCo 1.0: A Public Dataset for Fine-Grained Message Classification in Online Counseling Conversations
Jens Albrecht, Robert Lehmann, Aleksandra Poltermann +3
This paper presents OnCoCo 1.0, a new public dataset for fine-grained message classification in online counseling. It is based on a new, integrative system of categories, designed…