用语义投影无监督测量心理状态,效果可解释且适用广泛。
Measuring Psychological States Through Semantic Projection: A Theory-Driven Approach to Language-Based Assessment
- 基于语义轴无监督投影,将文本映射到抑郁焦虑等心理维度。
- 选词、短语等结构化文本的评分与临床量表相关性达0.65以上。
- 适合心理健康研究者和临床评估工具开发者使用。
近年来自然语言处理技术使从语言中精准估算心理特质成为可能。但现有方法多依赖有监督模型预测问卷得分,限制了可解释性和跨情境泛化能力。本文提出一种理论驱动的全无监督框架,通过语义投影直接从自然语言中测量心理状态。心理构念由来自成熟临床量表的词汇锚点和条目定义为可解释的语义轴。参与者文本响应经Sentence-BERT嵌入后,投影至这些轴生成连续心理评分,涵盖选词、生成词、短语及自由文本等多种格式。投影分数通过与标准临床量表的相关性、分半信度分析、衰减校正、Wasserstein距离分布相似性比较以及与VADER情感分析的对比进行评估。结果显示,结构化格式(如选词、写词、短语)的投影分数与临床量表具有强关联(相关系数最高达0.65),自由文本整体分析效果较弱,但采用句级聚合策略后显著提升。结果支持语义投影作为可解释、可扩展的心理评估替代方案,并强调响应格式与文本处理策略的重要性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled increasingly accurate estimation of psychological traits from language. However, most existing approaches rely on supervised models trained to predict questionnaire scores, limiting interpretability and generalizability across contexts. The present study introduces a theory-driven and fully unsupervised framework for measuring psychological states directly from natural language using semantic projection. Psychological constructs were operationalized as interpretable semantic axes derived from lexical anchors and items from validated clinical scales assessing depression, anxiety, and worry. Participants textual responses were embedded using Sentence-BERT and projected onto these axes to generate continuous psychological scores across multiple response formats, including selected words, generated words, phrases, and free-text responses. Projection scores were evaluated through correlations with standardized clinical measures , split-half reliability analyses, attenuation corrections, distributional similarity using Wasserstein distance, and comparisons with lexicon-based sentiment analysis (VADER). Results showed strong associations between projection scores and clinical measures, particularly for structured formats such as selected words, written words, and phrases. Free-text responses produced weaker results when analyzed as whole texts, but performance improved substantially when sentence-level aggregation strategies were applied. These findings support semantic projection as an interpretable and scalable alternative to supervised language models for psychological assessment and highlight the importance of response format and text-processing strategies in language-based mental health measurement.
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