7 papers
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…
LLARS: Enabling Domain Expert & Developer Collaboration for LLM Prompting, Generation and Evaluation
Philipp Steigerwald, Mara Stieler, Jennifer Burghardt +2
We demonstrate LLARS (LLM Assisted Research System), an open-source platform that bridges the gap between domain experts and developers for building LLM-based systems. It integrate…
Nürnberg NLP at PsyDefDetect: Multi-Axis Voter Ensembles for Psychological Defence Mechanism Classification
Philipp Steigerwald, Eric Rudolph, Jens Albrecht
Detecting levels of psychological defence mechanisms in supportive conversations is inherently ambiguous. In the PsyDefDetect shared task at BioNLP 2026 the eight positive defence…
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…
Evaluating Role-Consistency in LLMs for Counselor Training
Eric Rudolph, Natalie Engert, Jens Albrecht
The rise of online counseling services has highlighted the need for effective training methods for future counselors. This paper extends research on VirCo, a Virtual Client for Onl…