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Psychological Health Chatbot: Enhancing Mental Well-being with AI

A Persian-language mental-health chatbot built with transformer-based NLP, published at the AbjadNLP workshop — data collection, model training, and evaluation.

Amirreza Vishteh
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#NLP#Persian NLP#healthcare AI#publication
Psychological Health Chatbot system overview

Overview

The Psychological Health Chatbot is designed to assist individuals in their mental health journey by leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Our chatbot aims to provide a supportive, accessible, and intelligent tool for detecting and addressing psychological well-being.

📄 Read our full paper here: ACL Anthology

Team Members

  • Sadegh Jafari
  • Mohammad Erfan Zare
  • Amirreza Vishteh
  • Mirzae Melike
  • Zahra Amiri
  • Sima Mohammadparast
  • Sauleh Eetemadi

Table of Contents

  1. Data Collection
  2. Model Training
  3. Evaluation
  4. Results
  5. Conclusion
  6. Future Work

1. Data Collection

To ensure the chatbot effectively understands and responds to mental health queries, we compiled a diverse dataset of conversations related to psychological well-being. This dataset includes various emotional responses and scenarios to improve the chatbot’s robustness.

Data Collection

2. Model Training

We fine-tuned a pre-trained transformer-based model to enhance contextual understanding and response accuracy. Key aspects of training included:

  • Optimizing hyperparameters
  • Incorporating advanced emotion recognition techniques
  • Improving contextual relevance in responses

Model Training

3. Evaluation

Our chatbot underwent rigorous evaluation through user testing. We assessed:

  • Emotion detection accuracy
  • User satisfaction rates
  • Response relevance and coherence

Results demonstrated the chatbot’s effectiveness in identifying emotions and providing appropriate responses.

4. Results

Our final evaluation yielded promising results, with user satisfaction rates reaching [insert percentage]%. The chatbot successfully assisted users in navigating their mental health challenges.

Results Results

Conclusion

The Psychological Health Chatbot represents a significant step in integrating AI-driven solutions for mental health support. By offering an accessible and stigma-free platform, this chatbot has the potential to make a meaningful impact on users’ well-being.

Future Work

Future developments will focus on:

  • Enhancing emotional detection capabilities
  • Integrating personalized feedback mechanisms
  • Improving multi-turn conversational depth

📄 For more details, read our paper: ACL Anthology