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Main Authors: Zheng, Wenjie, Xie, Qiming, Wang, Zengzhi, Yu, Jianfei, Xia, Rui
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16106
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author Zheng, Wenjie
Xie, Qiming
Wang, Zengzhi
Yu, Jianfei
Xia, Rui
author_facet Zheng, Wenjie
Xie, Qiming
Wang, Zengzhi
Yu, Jianfei
Xia, Rui
contents Recently, multimodal depression recognition for clinical interviews (MDRC) has recently attracted considerable attention. Existing MDRC studies mainly focus on improving task performance and have achieved significant development. However, for clinical applications, model transparency is critical, and previous works ignore the interpretability of decision-making processes. To address this issue, we propose an Explainable Multimodal Depression Recognition for Clinical Interviews (EMDRC) task, which aims to provide evidence for depression recognition by summarizing symptoms and uncovering underlying causes. Given an interviewer-participant interaction scenario, the goal of EMDRC is to structured summarize participant's symptoms based on the eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ-8), and predict their depression severity. To tackle the EMDRC task, we construct a new dataset based on an existing MDRC dataset. Moreover, we utilize the PHQ-8 and propose a PHQ-aware multimodal multi-task learning framework, which captures the utterance-level symptom-related semantic information to help generate dialogue-level summary. Experiment results on our annotated dataset demonstrate the superiority of our proposed methods over baseline systems on the EMDRC task.
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spellingShingle Towards Explainable Multimodal Depression Recognition for Clinical Interviews
Zheng, Wenjie
Xie, Qiming
Wang, Zengzhi
Yu, Jianfei
Xia, Rui
Computation and Language
Recently, multimodal depression recognition for clinical interviews (MDRC) has recently attracted considerable attention. Existing MDRC studies mainly focus on improving task performance and have achieved significant development. However, for clinical applications, model transparency is critical, and previous works ignore the interpretability of decision-making processes. To address this issue, we propose an Explainable Multimodal Depression Recognition for Clinical Interviews (EMDRC) task, which aims to provide evidence for depression recognition by summarizing symptoms and uncovering underlying causes. Given an interviewer-participant interaction scenario, the goal of EMDRC is to structured summarize participant's symptoms based on the eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ-8), and predict their depression severity. To tackle the EMDRC task, we construct a new dataset based on an existing MDRC dataset. Moreover, we utilize the PHQ-8 and propose a PHQ-aware multimodal multi-task learning framework, which captures the utterance-level symptom-related semantic information to help generate dialogue-level summary. Experiment results on our annotated dataset demonstrate the superiority of our proposed methods over baseline systems on the EMDRC task.
title Towards Explainable Multimodal Depression Recognition for Clinical Interviews
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16106