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Ignacio J. Tripodi

2 accepted papers

2025

Assessing effective de-escalation of crisis conversations using transformer-based models and trend statistics

EMNLP 2025

One of the core goals of crisis counseling services is to support emotional de-escalation of the individual in crisis, by reducing intense negative emotional affect and emotional dysregulation. The science of crisis intervention has been impeded, however, by a lack of quantitative approaches that al

2024

Crisis counselor language and perceived genuine concern in crisis conversations

EMNLP 2024finding

Although clients’ perceptions of therapist empathy are known to correlate with therapy effectiveness, the specific ways that the therapist’s language use contributes to perceived empathy remain less understood. Natural Language Processing techniques, such as transformer models, permit the quantitati…