Human Language Technology for Text-based Analysis of Psychotherapy Sessions in the Spanish Language

We present work in progress in the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to the analysis of textual transcriptions of psychotherapy sessions in the Spanish Language. We are developing a set of NLP tools as well as adapting an existing dictionary for the analysis of interviews framed on a psychoanalytic theory. We investigate the application of NLP techniques, including dictionarybased interpretation, and speech act identification and classification for the (semi) automatic identification in text of a set of psychoanalytical variables. The objective of the work is to provide a set of tools and resources to assist therapist during discourse analysis.