RMHIDD: A Reddit Mental Health Intervention Dialogue Dataset

Abstract

In modern human society, mental health is one of the most critical concern. Over the past many years, a large proportion of the population has been affected by serious mental disorders. People with mental illness require effective mental health intervention and treatment as early as possible to decrease the chances of any further mental defilement. In this paper, we present RMHIDD, a new dialogue corpus for automated mental health intervention. The dataset is consists of over 200K Reddit posts collected from 18 different sub-Reddit groups with each post consisting of a sequential conversation between the users. On this dataset, we also trained various models for dialogue generation task, namely-’Seq2Seq’, ’BART’ and ’DialoGPT’. In our analysis, we found that the BART model outperformed other models with a higher Perplexity score of 19.7. We also found that the DialoGPT model surpasses other models on various machine translation evaluation metrics. The results generated from various language models were promising and showed the possibility of building automated mental health intervention.

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