6 papers
Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations
Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Zhaoming Chen +8
We present an overview of PsyDefDetect, the shared task on detecting levels of psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues, co-located with BioNLP@ACL 2026. Gro…
You Never Know a Person, You Only Know Their Defenses: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations
Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Zhaoming Chen +9
Psychological defenses are strategies, often automatic, that people use to manage distress. Rigid or overuse of defenses is negatively linked to mental health and shapes what speak…
Thinker-DDM: Modeling Deliberation for Machine Translation with a Drift-Diffusion Process
Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Mieradilijiang Maimaiti +4
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising potential in various downstream tasks, including machine translation. However, prior work on LLM-based machine translation…
Lost in Pronunciation: Detecting Chinese Offensive Language Disguised by Phonetic Cloaking Replacement
Haotan Guo, Jianfei He, Jiayuan Ma +8
Phonetic Cloaking Replacement (PCR), defined as the deliberate use of homophonic or near-homophonic variants to hide toxic intent, has become a major obstacle to Chinese content mo…
A Survey of Large Language Models in Psychotherapy: Current Landscape and Future Directions
Hongbin Na, Yining Hua, Zimu Wang +6
Mental health is increasingly critical in contemporary healthcare, with psychotherapy demanding dynamic, context-sensitive interactions that traditional NLP methods struggle to cap…
Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting
Jiayuan Ma, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang +4
Mental manipulation severely undermines mental wellness by covertly and negatively distorting decision-making. While there is an increasing interest in mental health care within th…