Towards Consistent Detection of Cognitive Distortions: LLM-Based Annotation and Dataset-Agnostic Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01482v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:45:26 GMT
• Title: Towards Consistent Detection of Cognitive Distortions: LLM-Based Annotation and Dataset-Agnostic Evaluation
• Authors: Neha Sharma, Navneet Agarwal, Kairit Sirts,
• Abstract summary: Text-based automated Cognitive Distortion detection is a challenging task due to its subjective nature.<n>We explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as consistent and reliable annotators.
• Score: 2.699704259580951
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Text-based automated Cognitive Distortion detection is a challenging task due to its subjective nature, with low agreement scores observed even among expert human annotators, leading to unreliable annotations. We explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as consistent and reliable annotators, and propose that multiple independent LLM runs can reveal stable labeling patterns despite the inherent subjectivity of the task. Furthermore, to fairly compare models trained on datasets with different characteristics, we introduce a dataset-agnostic evaluation framework using Cohen's kappa as an effect size measure. This methodology allows for fair cross-dataset and cross-study comparisons where traditional metrics like F1 score fall short. Our results show that GPT-4 can produce consistent annotations (Fleiss's Kappa = 0.78), resulting in improved test set performance for models trained on these annotations compared to those trained on human-labeled data. Our findings suggest that LLMs can offer a scalable and internally consistent alternative for generating training data that supports strong downstream performance in subjective NLP tasks.

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