3 papers
cs.CL2026
First, Do No Harm: AI Supervisor Scaffolds Novice Growth in Counselor Education
Chen Xu, Zhenyu Lyu, Tian Lan +12
The most dangerous mistakes a novice counselor makes are not the obvious ones: they are utterances that sound caring while quietly violating professional ethics and leaving vulnera…
cs.CL2026
The Art of Socratic Inquiry: A Framework for Proactive Template-Guided Therapeutic Conversation Generation
Mingwen Zhang, Minqiang Yang, Changsheng Ma +5
Proactive questioning, where therapists deliberately initiate structured, cognition-guiding inquiries, is a cornerstone of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Yet, current psycholo…
cs.CL2025
DECIDER: A Dual-System Rule-Controllable Decoding Framework for Language Generation
Chen Xu, Tian Lan, Yu Ji +8
Constrained decoding approaches aim to control the meaning or style of text generated by the pre-trained large language models (LLMs or also PLMs) for various tasks at inference ti…