Ontology and Expert System Based Intervention, for Psychological Consultation (Published)
“Stress” is mostly an invisible aspect of a human being. Yet some of the outcomes might be visible to the external world, as behavioral changes, attributed changes or symptoms of some physical ailments, such as headaches, insomnia, loose motion and etc. There is high potential, a healthy human can be a victim of stress, but the other side is, in Sri Lanka, we do have extremely limited amount of trained psychologists and psychiatrists. This will lead to a situation as such, per a consultant, excess amount of patients, which will make the informational overload for the consultants too much and ultimately making them emotionally fatigue and may cause to degrade the diagnosis quality. The intension of this paper is to see, how ICT based assistance can be utilized to introduce a process oriented mechanism, which will be capable in long run to control some aspects of these unforeseen problems.
Keywords: Expert System, Internal-Self-Talk; Ontology; Pos Tagging; Cbt; Ocean Model