University of Ulm: The Ulm Textbank research program.

Mergenthaler, Erhard; Kächele, Horst

doi:10.1037/10092-025

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“…One of the first examples of this approach was the General Inquirer (Stone and Hunt 1963). Other examples of this approach were the research in the scope of the Textbank System (Mergenthaler and Kächele 1991) and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) tool (Chung and Pennebaker 2012;Pennebaker and Francis 1996).…”

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Automated Analysis of Reflection in Writing: Validating Machine Learning Approaches

Ullmann

2019

Int J Artif Intell Educ

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Reflective writing is an important educational practice to train reflective thinking. Currently, researchers must manually analyze these writings, limiting practice and research because the analysis is time and resource consuming. This study evaluates whether machine learning can be used to automate this manual analysis. The study investigates eight categories that are often used in models to assess reflective writing, and the evaluation is based on 76 student essays (5080 sentences) that are largely from third-and second-year health, business, and engineering students. To test the automated analysis of reflection in writings, machine learning models were built based on a random sample of 80% of the sentences. These models were then tested on the remaining 20% of the sentences. Overall, the standardized evaluation shows that five out of eight categories can be detected automatically with substantial or almost perfect reliability, while the other three categories can be detected with moderate reliability (Cohen's κ ranges between .53 and .85). The accuracies of the automated analysis were on average 10% lower than the accuracies of the manual analysis. These findings enable reflection analytics that is immediate and scalable.

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Automated Analysis of Reflection in Writing: Validating Machine Learning Approaches

Ullmann

2019

Int J Artif Intell Educ

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“…This archival data is used to explore dialectic and thematic aspects of the therapy process, facilitated by the computer's ability to search and sort words and topics. The goals of the "Ulm Textbank Research Program" (Mergenthaler & Kachele, 1991) makes the verbatim transcripts of psychotherapy sessions available to researchers. The Textbank Management System integrates techniques of hguistic analysis and text processing to make texts in the field of psychotherapy accessible to a wide range of users.…”

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“…In spite of this increasing similarity, both interprogram and interregional variations are sufficient to suggest that there are regional and geographical differences in the degree to which process and outcome research is valued. Beutler, Crago, & Machado (1991) concluded that most research programs that intensively study psychotherapy processes, to the relative exclusion of efficacy assessment, are clustered in northern Europe, especially Germany (e.g., Mergenthaler & Kachele, 1991), and the coastal regions of North America (e.g., Honvitz et d., 1991). On the other hand, programs that place relative value on efficacy studies are less easily assigned a geographic concentration in North America because they represent all of the regions of the United States and Canada.…”

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Research on psychotherapy.

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Machado²

International Psychological Science: Progress, Problems, and Prospects.

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w ithin the last two decades, psychotherapy research has begun to emerge from being a cottage industry to become recognized as a viable and credible scientific endeavor. This emergence appears to be a common development in most industrialized countries of the western world, although it has progressed at different rates in each. Collectively, the growth of psychotherapy research has followed a pattern that is characterized by at least three distinct phases. For want of better terms, these phases may be described as the periods of case analysis, descriptive assessment, and controlled experiments. Indeed, research on psychotherapy may now be entering a fourth and still more mature stage of growth characterized by methods that are designed to address complex interactions among treatment, patient, outcome, and process variables. The Phase of Case AnalysisWith the introduction of the "talking cure" by Freud and his followers, research during the first three decades of ttus century was confined largely to intensive descriptions and analyses of individual cases, accompanied by elaborate theoretical formulations to explain the observations. These case analytic methods in psychotherapy were initiated in Europe and paralleled the use of similar methods in the biological sciences during that Work on this chapter was partially supported by National Institute ofAlcoho1 Abuse andillcohohni Grant No. 1 RO1 A08970 awarded to Lany E. Beutler.

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Handbuch Der Forensischen Psychiatrie

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University of Ulm: The Ulm Textbank research program.

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Automated Analysis of Reflection in Writing: Validating Machine Learning Approaches

Automated Analysis of Reflection in Writing: Validating Machine Learning Approaches

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