Disentangling the Interpretive and Predictive Roles of LIWC: Controlled Substitution in Depression-Related Classification

Hsiang-Chen Yeh, Xiutian Zhao, Aurosweta Mahapatra +3

Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) provides auditable psycholinguistic categories that are widely used to interpret depression-related language, but its incremental predictiv…