Talk @ Data Science for Mental Health (DS4MH) @ The Alan Turing Institute on Adaptive Language-Based Assessments
This study introduces Adaptive Language-Based Assessment (ALBA) for mental health, using limited language responses to adaptively order questions and assess psychological traits. Two methods, ALIRT and Actor-Critic, outperformed non-adaptive baselines. ALIRT proved most effective, achieving high accuracy with fewer questions, demonstrating that adaptive assessments can maintain validity with smaller language samples and lower computational costs.
Jul 18, 2024
ALBA: Adaptive Language-Based Assessments for Mental Health
This study introduces Adaptive Language-Based Assessment (ALBA) for mental health, using limited language responses to adaptively order questions and assess psychological traits. Two methods, ALIRT and Actor-Critic, outperformed non-adaptive baselines. ALIRT proved most effective, achieving high accuracy with fewer questions, demonstrating that adaptive assessments can maintain validity with smaller language samples and lower computational costs.
Jan 1, 2024