COLING'22 Pitch | Curating a Large-Scale Motivational Interviewing Dataset using PeerSupport Forums

This short pitch presents “Curating a Large-Scale Motivational Interviewing Dataset using Peer Support Forums”, a COLING 2022 paper by Anuradha Welivita and Pearl Pu. The paper explores how online peer-support conversations can be used to build larger datasets for training mental health dialogue systems. By comparing peer responses with professional counselor responses using motivational interviewing labels, the study highlights both the promise and the risks of using real-world support forums for therapeutic chatbot research. Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-... #NLP #AIResearch #MentalHealthAI #DialogueSystems #COLING2022