Andrew M. Sherrill — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

How Real Are Synthetic Therapy Conversations? Evaluating Fidelity in Prolonged Exposure Dialogues

Suhas Bn, Dominik O. Mattioli, Andrew M. Sherrill, Rosa I. Arriaga, Christopher Wiese, Saeed Abdullah

EMNLP 2025

Synthetic data adoption in healthcare is driven by privacy concerns, data access limitations, and high annotation costs. We explore synthetic Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy conversations for PTSD as a scalable alternative for training clinical models. We systematically compare real and synthetic di

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2025

The Pursuit of Empathy: Evaluating Small Language Models for PTSD Dialogue Support

Suhas Bn, Yash Mahajan, Dominik O. Mattioli, Andrew M. Sherrill, Rosa I. Arriaga, Christopher Wiese +1

EMNLP 2025

This paper investigates the capacity of small language models (0.5B-5B parameters) to generate empathetic responses for individuals with PTSD. We introduce Trauma-Informed Dialogue for Empathy (TIDE), a novel dataset comprising 10,000 two-turn conversations across 500 diverse, clinically-grounded PT

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2025

Thousand Voices of Trauma: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for Modeling Prolonged Exposure Therapy Conversations

Suhas BN, Andrew M. Sherrill, Rosa I. Arriaga, Christopher Wiese, Saeed Abdullah

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

The advancement of AI systems for mental health support is hindered by limited access to therapeutic conversation data, particularly for trauma treatment. We present Thousand Voices of Trauma, a synthetic benchmark dataset of 3,000 therapy conversations based on Prolonged Exposure therapy protocols…

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