用大模型生成精神症状文本,解决标注难问题。
SynSym: A Synthetic Data Generation Framework for Psychiatric Symptom Identification
- 用大模型将症状拆解为子概念,生成多样表达
- 合成数据训练模型效果接近真实数据
- 适合研究心理健康与自然语言处理交叉领域
社交平台上精神症状识别旨在从用户生成内容中推断细粒度的心理健康症状,以深入了解用户心理状态。然而,由于专家标注成本高且缺乏统一标注规范,构建大规模症状级数据集仍具挑战性,限制了模型对多样化症状表达的泛化能力。为此,我们提出SynSym——一种用于构建可泛化症状识别数据集的合成数据生成框架。该框架利用大语言模型(LLMs),通过(1)将每个症状扩展为子概念以增强表达多样性,(2)生成反映精神症状的多种语言风格表达,(3)基于临床共现模式构建真实的多症状组合表达。我们在三个涵盖不同抑郁症状表达风格的基准数据集上验证SynSym。实验结果表明,仅使用SynSym生成的合成数据训练的模型表现可媲美真实数据训练的模型,且在加入少量真实数据微调后进一步提升。这些发现证实了合成数据在精神症状建模中作为真实标注替代资源的巨大潜力,SynSym也为生成具有临床意义和现实感的症状表达提供了实用框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Psychiatric symptom identification on social media aims to infer fine-grained mental health symptoms from user-generated posts, allowing a detailed understanding of users' mental states. However, the construction of large-scale symptom-level datasets remains challenging due to the resource-intensive nature of expert labeling and the lack of standardized annotation guidelines, which in turn limits the generalizability of models to identify diverse symptom expressions from user-generated text. To address these issues, we propose SynSym, a synthetic data generation framework for constructing generalizable datasets for symptom identification. Leveraging large language models (LLMs), SynSym constructs high-quality training samples by (1) expanding each symptom into sub-concepts to enhance the diversity of generated expressions, (2) producing synthetic expressions that reflect psychiatric symptoms in diverse linguistic styles, and (3) composing realistic multi-symptom expressions, informed by clinical co-occurrence patterns. We validate SynSym on three benchmark datasets covering different styles of depressive symptom expression. Experimental results demonstrate that models trained solely on the synthetic data generated by SynSym perform comparably to those trained on real data, and benefit further from additional fine-tuning with real data. These findings underscore the potential of synthetic data as an alternative resource to real-world annotations in psychiatric symptom modeling, and SynSym serves as a practical framework for generating clinically relevant and realistic symptom expressions.
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