AI RESEARCH
Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.24907v1 Announce Type: new We present an overview of PsyDefDetect, the shared task on detecting levels of psychological defense mechanisms in emotional dialogues, co-located with BioNLP 2026. Grounded in the clinically validated Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS) framework, the task asks systems to classify a target seeker utterance, given its preceding dialogue context, into one of nine categories: seven hierarchical DMRS levels plus two auxiliary labels.