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  • Psychiatric diagnostics
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare

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  • Natural language processing (NLP) shows potential for advancing psychiatric research and clinical practice.
  • NLP has demonstrated success in automatically detecting speech disorganization, a key feature of formal thought disorder (FTD).
  • A gap exists in understanding how NLP metrics relate to theoretical models of FTD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between NLP metrics and theoretical accounts of FTD.
  • To use deep generative language models to simulate FTD-like narratives.
  • To perturb computational parameters that instantiate theory-based mechanisms of FTD.

Main Methods:

  • Simulated FTD-like narratives using Generative-Pretrained-Transformer-2.
  • Manipulated word selection stochasticity and model memory span.
  • Assessed NLP measures of derailment and tangentiality.

Main Results:

  • Both increased stochasticity and limited memory span increased semantic distance between sentences.
  • Semantic distance between words varied: increased by stochasticity, decreased by limited memory.
  • A tangentiality measure was uniquely predicted by limited memory span, showing nonmonotonic effects.
  • Sentence meaning encoding methods significantly impacted performance.

Conclusions:

  • A simulation-based approach is validated for hypothesis generation in psychiatric NLP.
  • This method aids mechanistic analysis of NLP markers in psychiatry.
  • A Python tutorial is provided to facilitate the adoption of this approach.