Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy.
Recent years have witnessed some rapid and tremendous progress in natural language processing (NLP) techniques that are used to analyse text data. This study endeavours to offer an up‐to‐date review of NLP applications by examining their use in counselling and psychotherapy from 1990 to 2021. The pu...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 2; pp. 677 - 702 |
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