3 papers
cs.CL2026
The Association of Transformer-based Sentiment Analysis with Symptom Distress and Deterioration in Routine Psychotherapy Care
Douglas K. Faust, Peter Awad, Alexandre Vaz +1
Sentiment analysis has been of long-standing interest in psychotherapy research. Recently, the Transformer deep learning architecture has produced text-based sentiment analysis mod…
cs.HC2025
Independent Clinical Evaluation of General-Purpose LLM Responses to Signals of Suicide Risk
Nick Judd, Alexandre Vaz, Kevin Paeth +5
We introduce findings and methods to facilitate evidence-based discussion about how large language models (LLMs) should behave in response to user signals of risk of suicidal thoug…
cs.CY2025
Evaluating the Clinical Safety of LLMs in Response to High-Risk Mental Health Disclosures
Siddharth Shah, Amit Gupta, Aarav Mann +8
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate emotionally sensitive conversations, especially in mental health contexts, their ability to recognize and respond to high-risk…