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Disentangling Symptom Heterogeneity in Large-Scale Psychiatric Text: Domain-Adapted vs. Instruction-Tuned Transformers

2026-02-26 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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Psychiatric disorders are fundamentally challenged by symptom heterogeneity, high comorbidity, and the absence of objective biomarkers, which together result in substantial variability in clinical assessment and treatment selection. Patient-generated language captures rich information about subjective experience and symptom severity, which can be systematically encoded and analyzed using computational models, making it a scalable signal for psychiatric assessment. We compare two approaches: (i) ...

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