@inproceedings{meyer-etal-2024-exploring,
    title = "Exploring the Challenges of Behaviour Change Language Classification: A Study on Semi-Supervised Learning and the Impact of Pseudo-Labelled Data",
    author = "Meyer, Selina  and
      Fernandez-Pichel, Marcos  and
      Elsweiler, David  and
      Losada, David E.",
    editor = "Demner-Fushman, Dina  and
      Ananiadou, Sophia  and
      Thompson, Paul  and
      Ondov, Brian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl4health-1.28",
    pages = "229--239",
    abstract = "Automatic classification of behaviour change language can enhance conversational agents{'} capabilities to adjust their behaviour based on users{'} current situations and to encourage individuals to make positive changes. However, the lack of annotated language data of change-seekers hampers the performance of existing classifiers. In this study, we investigate the use of semi-supervised learning (SSL) to classify highly imbalanced texts around behaviour change. We assess the impact of including pseudo-labelled data from various sources and examine the balance between the amount of added pseudo-labelled data and the strictness of the inclusion criteria. Our findings indicate that while adding pseudo-labelled samples to the training data has limited classification impact, it does not significantly reduce performance regardless of the source of these new samples. This reinforces previous findings on the feasibility of applying classifiers trained on behaviour change language to diverse contexts.",
}

Automatic classification of behaviour change language can enhance conversational agents{'} capabilities to adjust their behaviour based on users{'} current situations and to encourage individuals to make positive changes. However, the lack of annotated language data of change-seekers hampers the performance of existing classifiers. In this study, we investigate the use of semi-supervised learning (SSL) to classify highly imbalanced texts around behaviour change. We assess the impact of including pseudo-labelled data from various sources and examine the balance between the amount of added pseudo-labelled data and the strictness of the inclusion criteria. Our findings indicate that while adding pseudo-labelled samples to the training data has limited classification impact, it does not significantly reduce performance regardless of the source of these new samples. This reinforces previous findings on the feasibility of applying classifiers trained on behaviour change language to diverse contexts.
Meyer, Selina Fern ez-Pichel, Marcos Elsweiler, David Losada, David E.
Exploring the Challenges of Behaviour Change Language Classification: A Study on Semi-Supervised Learning and the Impact of Pseudo-Labelled Data