Breaking the Stigma! Unobtrusively Probe Symptoms in Depression Disorder Diagnosis Dialogue
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Jan 25, 2025
Abstract
Stigma has emerged as one of the major obstacles to effectively diagnosing
depression, as it prevents users from open conversations about their struggles.
This requires advanced questioning skills to carefully probe the presence of
specific symptoms in an unobtrusive manner. While recent efforts have been made
on depression-diagnosis-oriented dialogue systems, they largely ignore this
problem, ultimately hampering their practical utility. To this end, we propose
a novel and effective method, UPSD$^{4}$, developing a series of strategies to
promote a sense of unobtrusiveness within the dialogue system and assessing
depression disorder by probing symptoms. We experimentally show that UPSD$^{4}$
demonstrates a significant improvement over current baselines, including
unobtrusiveness evaluation of dialogue content and diagnostic accuracy. We
believe our work contributes to developing more accessible and user-friendly
tools for addressing the widespread need for depression diagnosis.
