--- title: "Team Aurevia at CLPsych 2026 — paper by Roll et al. (2026)" description: "This paper presents Team Aurevia's entry to the CLPsych 2026 Shared Task. 0.645 Spearman. 3 references, cited by 1 paper here." authors: ["Nathan Roll", "Irene Yi", "Sufian Aldogom", "Grace Brown", "Eric Basile", "Isaac Gutterman", "Lakshika Tennakoon", "Ammar Ahmed"] year: 2026 venue: "Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)" source: "https://aclanthology.org/2026.clpsych-1.43/" doi: "10.18653/v1/2026.clpsych-1.43" licence: "CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roll-2026-team-aurevia-clpsych-2026-local/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roll-2026-team-aurevia-clpsych-2026-local/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/18/) / Team Aurevia at CLPsych 2026: Local Healthcare NLP for Schema-Constrained Self-State Modeling # Team Aurevia at CLPsych 2026: Local Healthcare NLP for Schema-Constrained Self-State Modeling **Authors:** [Nathan Roll](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-roll/), Irene Yi, Sufian Aldogom, Grace Brown, Eric Basile, Isaac Gutterman, Lakshika Tennakoon and Ammar Ahmed · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** [Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clpsych/) ([Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clpsych/2026/)) · **Publisher:** [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/2026.clpsych-1.43/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2026.clpsych-1.43.pdf) · [DOI 10.18653/v1/2026.clpsych-1.43](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.clpsych-1.43) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W7166807354) **Citations:** 0 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14) · 1 in our library, of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read ## Summary This paper presents Team Aurevia's entry to the CLPsych 2026 Shared Task. The task asks systems to track how self-states shift across social-media timelines using the MIND framework, which uses Affect, Behavior, Cognition and Desire categories (each adaptive or maladaptive) rather than diagnostic labels. The subtasks are: - post-level ABCD subelement detection and 1–5 presence ratings - detection of Switches and Escalations - sequence summarization - deterioration and improvement signatures The team tested whether a fully local, privacy-preserving pipeline could compete without sending sensitive text to hosted proprietary APIs. Their system combines TF-IDF retrieval of similar training examples with few-shot, JSON-constrained prompting of a 4-bit Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct model run through MLX. It then applies schema repair, ordinal calibration, rule-based temporal signals and cautious post-processing. The system did best on coarse presence ratings, summary consistency and deterioration signatures. It was weaker on fine subelements, timeline-level change points and improvement signatures. The work shows that tightly controlled open-weight local LLMs are viable for sensitive mental-health NLP. It also points to within-person temporal modeling as the main unsolved problem. ## Key points - Model: mlx-community/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-4bit, with greedy decoding and three retrieved posts as few-shot examples. A non-neural branch uses TF-IDF uni/bigrams (5,000 features) with nearest-neighbor voting. Presence calibration blends model outputs with training/development means at weights 0.30/0.70. - Task 1.2 presence ranked 3rd of 17 (RMSE 0.981, QWK 0.645, Spearman 0.674). Task 1.1 subelements ranked 5th of 17 (average macro F1 0.381). - Task 2 change detection ranked 7th of 18 (combined macro F1 0.484). Post-level F1 was 0.556, but timeline-level F1 was only 0.413. - Task 3.1 summaries ranked 5th of 13 overall. They placed 1st on consistency (0.866) and 2nd on contradiction (0.625), but had weaker recall against reference summaries. - Task 3.2 deterioration signatures ranked 2nd of 9 (0.676), while improvement signatures ranked 6th of 9 (0.465). The authors ran no ablations and did no clinical validation. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. 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Team Aurevia at CLPsych 2026: Local Healthcare NLP for Schema-Constrained Self-State Modeling. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026). The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{roll2026team, title = {{Team Aurevia at CLPsych 2026: Local Healthcare NLP for Schema-Constrained Self-State Modeling}}, author = {Nathan Roll, Irene Yi, Sufian Aldogom, Grace Brown, Eric Basile, Isaac Gutterman, Lakshika Tennakoon and Ammar Ahmed}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026)}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.clpsych-1.43}, url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.clpsych-1.43} } ``` - [← previous TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sui-2026-tea-bench-systematic-benchmarking-tool/) - [next → Team BOBW (Best Of Both Worlds) at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Modular Cross-Attention Encoders for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rynowiecki-2026-team-bobw-best-both-worlds/) - [↑ back to papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/18/) ## References 3 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 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