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Conceptual Reasoning for Generating Automated Psychotherapeutic Responses

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Ontologies and Concepts in Mind and Machine (ICCS 2020)

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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.

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    Graham Mann, Beena Kishore & Pyara Dhillon

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  2. Institute of Information Systems, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Tanya Braun

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

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Mann, G., Kishore, B., Dhillon, P. (2020). Conceptual Reasoning for Generating Automated Psychotherapeutic Responses. In: Alam, M., Braun, T., Yun, B. (eds) Ontologies and Concepts in Mind and Machine. ICCS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57855-8_14

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