Conference paper
Conceptual reasoning for generating automated psychotherapeutic responses
Ontologies and Concepts in Mind and Machine, Vol.12277
International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 2020: Ontologies and Concepts in Mind and Machine (Bolzano, Italy, 18/09/2020–20/09/2020)
2020
Abstract
The need for software applications that can assist with mental disorders has never been greater. Individuals suffering from mental illnesses often avoid consultation with a psychotherapist, because they do not realize the need, or because they cannot or will not face the social and economic consequences, which can be severe. Between ideal treatment by a human therapist and self-help websites lies the possibility of a helpful interaction with a language-using computer. A practical model of empathic response planning for sentence generation in a forthcoming automated psychotherapist is described here. The model combines emotional state tracking, contextual information from the patient’s history and continuously updated therapeutic goals to form suitable conceptual graphs that may then be realized as suitable textual sentences.
Details
- Title
- Conceptual reasoning for generating automated psychotherapeutic responses
- Authors/Creators
- G. Mann (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityB. Kishore (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityP. Dhillon (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Ontologies and Concepts in Mind and Machine, Vol.12277
- Conference
- International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 2020: Ontologies and Concepts in Mind and Machine (Bolzano, Italy, 18/09/2020–20/09/2020)
- Identifiers
- 991005541981807891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Additional Information
- Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 12277)
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