Lizhi Ma

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Hangzhou Normal University

As awareness of mental health issues grows, online counseling support services are becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide. Detecting whether users express suicidal ideation in text-based counseling services is crucial for identifying and prioritizing at-risk individuals. However, the lack of domain-specific systems to facilitate fine-grained sui...

Accurate assessment of personality traits is crucial for effective psycho-counseling, yet traditional methods like self-report questionnaires are time-consuming and biased. This study exams whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can predict the Big Five personality traits directly from counseling dialogues and introduces an innovative framework to pe...

Communication success relies heavily on reading participants' reactions. Such feedback is especially important for mental health counselors , who must carefully consider the client's progress and adjust their approach accordingly. However, previous NLP research on counseling has mainly focused on studying counselors' intervention strategies rather...

Communication success relies heavily on reading participants' reactions. Such feedback is especially important for mental health counselors, who must carefully consider the client's progress and adjust their approach accordingly. However, previous NLP research on counseling has mainly focused on studying counselors' intervention strategies rather t...

Others' emotional expressions affect individuals' attention allocation in social interactions, which are integral to the process of word learning. However, the impact of perceived emotions on word learning is not well understood. Two eye‐tracking experiments investigated 78 British toddlers' (37 girls) of 29‐ to 31‐month‐old retention of novel labe...

Automated real-time evaluation of counselor-client interaction is important for ensuring quality counseling but the rules are difficult to articulate. Recent advancements in machine learning methods show the possibility of learning such rules automatically. However, these methods often demand large scale and high quality counseling data, which are...

Thirty 30-month-old toddlers participated a screen-based word learning task in which they were taught novel words in neutral, positive and negative affect. This two-day study consisted of a referent selection (RS) phase followed by two retention phases (RT1 & RT2). RT1 after a five-minute break and RT2 on the following day to examine longer-term re...

All the toddlers firstly learned novel label-object mappings in affectively neutral, positive and negative conditions in a referent selection training phase, then were tested whether they retained the label-object mappings and affection-object mappings in a retention testing phases after five minutes break followed referent selection and also on th...

Variability is prevalent in early language acquisition, however whether it supports or hinders learning is unclear: while target variability has been shown to facilitate word learning, variability in competitor items has been shown to make the task harder. Here we tested whether background variability could boost learning in a referent selection ta...

Variability is important in language acquisition; however, whether it supports or hinders learning is unclear: while 3D object studies suggest that children learn word-object mappings better when the object varies, storybook studies indicate that variability in the context in which new objects are shown impairs learning. We tested a dynamic systems...

Variability is prevalent in early language acquisition, however, whether it supports or hinders learning is unclear: while target variability has been shown to support word learning, variability in competitor items has been shown to make the task harder. Here we tested whether background variability could boost learning in a referent selection task...

Introduction In word learning studies children are presented with a novel object alongside two or more familiar competitor objects and are asked to point to one of the objects in response to a label (e.g. Which one’s the blicket?). Research shows that even young infants can reliably select a novel object in response to a novel label (Houston-Price,...