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I am neither a computational linguist nor an AI linguist nor a linguist of any kind. I am a psychiatrist interested in using computer programs to conduct psychotherapy — traditionally called talk-therapy, harking back to Socrates who remarked “the cure of the soul has to be effected by certain charms — and these charms are fair words”.
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Colby, K.M. (1999). Human-Computer Conversation in A Cognitive Therapy Program. In: Wilks, Y. (eds) Machine Conversations. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 511. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5687-6_3
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