Multi-Level Narrative Evaluation Outperforms Lexical Features for Mental Health

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arXiv:2604.27846v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How people narrate their experiences offers a window into how the mind organizes them. Computational approaches to therapeutic writing have evolved from lexical counting to neural methods, yet remain fragmented: dictionary tools miss discourse structure, while embeddings conflate local coherence with global organization. No existing framework maps these techniques onto the hierarchical processes through which narratives are constructed. Here we