Starla
A chatbot that provides mental health assistance
Created on 25th January 2022
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Starla
A chatbot that provides mental health assistance
The problem Starla solves
Chatbots addressing mental health are built on the premise of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT uses structured exercises to encourage a person to question and change their habits of thought— this format is well suited to a step-by-step software guide or chatbot. Timely interventions by chatbots with patients can help to manage mental health conditions. This is mainly done by changing the way they think and behave by encouraging patients to reframe their negative thoughts into positive ones by deploying natural language processing and clinical expertise.
Challenges we ran into
A major amount of our time was spent on designing and making the neural networks more accurate. After a lot of hits and trials and researching upon the internet we were able to get an average accuracy score of 90% - 92%.