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    <h1>OpenAI Proposal</h1>

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    <h2>Overview</h2>
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        <p>Large language models are increasingly used to answer questions related to mental health, yet they often operate without grounding in validated instruments, structured evidence, or clear semantic constraints. This creates risks of inaccurate, misleading, or context-insensitive responses, particularly in domains involving psychological constructs, assessments, and clinical evidence. This project investigates whether knowledge graphs and ontologies can provide a practical and effective constraint layer for guiding LLM behavior, reducing common failure modes while preserving conversational usability.</p>
        <p>Building on an existing knowledge graph developed under an NIMH-funded project, the research will expand semantic, evidence, and provenance modeling and integrate this infrastructure into a controlled conversational AI prototype. Using a curated set of mental health–related queries, we will systematically analyze errors and risks that arise when LLMs respond without grounding, and compare them to responses generated with knowledge graph constraints. This approach enables empirical evaluation of how structured evidence influences accuracy, contextual sensitivity, transparency, and safety.</p>
        <p>The project will produce a grounded prototype, a taxonomy of ungrounded failure modes, and empirical results comparing grounded and ungrounded AI behavior. Together, these outcomes will provide actionable insights into when and how semantic infrastructure can meaningfully improve mental health AI systems. The findings will inform future system design, evaluation standards, and responsible deployment practices for AI technologies operating in mental health contexts.</p>
        <p>The project is led by a multidisciplinary team with expertise in knowledge graphs, hybrid AI, psychometrics, and mental health research. Prior work includes peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and the development of the Psychometric Ontology of Experiences and Measures (POEM). This work has resulted in an initial NIMH-funded knowledge graph capturing validated mental health screening instruments, their semantics, versions, and associated evidence, as well as a large database of real world email inquiries from RCADS users. Together, these existing resources place the team in a strong position to efficiently achieve the project’s goals and to focus on evaluating and operationalizing knowledge graph–grounded AI behavior rather than building infrastructure from scratch.</p>
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                <div class="team-name">Deborah L. McGuinness, PhD</div>
                <div class="team-role">Principal Investigator, AI</div>
                <div class="team-bio">Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and globally recognized authority in ontology engineering, semantic technologies, and hybrid AI.</div>
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                    <a href="https://tw.rpi.edu/person/Deborah_L_McGuinness" title="Homepage">🏠︎</a>
                    <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-mcguinness-088167/" title="LinkedIn">[in]</a>
                    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PLJ0L4QAAAAJ&hl=en" title="Google Scholar">🎓</a>
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                <div class="team-name">Bruce F. Chorpita, PhD</div>
                <div class="team-role">Co-Principal Investigator, Mental Health</div>
                <div class="team-bio">Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles who has demonstrably improved youth mental health systems at scale in various academic and governmental leadership positions.</div>
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                    <a href="https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty-page/chorpita/" title="Homepage">🏠︎</a>
                    <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-chorpita/" title="LinkedIn">[in]</a>
                    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5QWukW8AAAAJ" title="Google Scholar">🎓</a>
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                <div class="team-name">Kimberly D. Becker, PhD</div>
                <div class="team-role">Clinical psychologist</div>
                <div class="team-bio">Clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of South Carolina, specializing in improving access to high-quality mental health services and the effective use of resources in mental health decision-making.</div>
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                    <a href="https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/psychology/our_people/directory/kimberly_becker.php" title="Homepage">🏠︎</a>
                    <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-becker-9272a17/" title="LinkedIn">[in]</a>
                    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5rrQLNAAAAAJ" title="Google Scholar">🎓</a>
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                <div class="team-role">AI Researcher</div>
                <div class="team-bio">Director of Semantic Applications Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with expertise in knowledge representation, reasoning, and hybrid AI.</div>
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                    <a href="https://tw.rpi.edu/person/HenriqueSantos" title="Homepage">🏠︎</a>
                    <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrique-o-santos/" title="LinkedIn">[in]</a>
                    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Aqdsf6kAAAAJ&hl=en" title="Google Scholar">🎓</a>
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                <div class="team-name">Eliza Swindell, BA</div>
                <div class="team-role">Research Project Manager</div>
                <div class="team-bio">Manager of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS), its associated resources and ongoing research.</div>
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                    <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/eliza-swindell-34bb61232/" title="LinkedIn">[in]</a>
                    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dYaju6wAAAAJ&hl=en" title="Google Scholar">🎓</a>
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                <div class="org-name">Tetherless World Constellation</div>
                <div class="org-description">Multidisciplinary research institution at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that focuses on the study of theories, methods and applications of the World Wide Web.</div>
                <a href="https://tw.rpi.edu" class="org-link" target="_blank">Visit Website</a>
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                <div class="org-name">Child FIRST</div>
                <div class="org-description">Clinical science research laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles dedicated to improving the effectiveness of mental health services delivered to youth and their families.</div>
                <a href="https://www.childfirst.ucla.edu" class="org-link" target="_blank">Visit Website</a>
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                <div class="org-description">Collection of self-report and parent-report instruments designed to measure anxiety and depression in youth between the ages of 8 and 18.</div>
                <a href="https://rcads.ucla.edu" class="org-link" target="_blank">Visit Website</a>
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                <div class="org-description">Research lab at the University of South Carolina aiming to extend the reach and impact of children's mental health services through research.</div>
                <a href="https://rcads.ucla.edu" class="org-link" target="_blank">Visit Website</a>
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    <h2>Prior Work</h2>
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            <li>Chorpita, B.F., Becker, K.D., De Los Reyes, A., Ovalle Patino, E., Machle, C.J., McGuinness, D.L., Reise, S.P., Rook, K., Santos, H., Spence, S.H., Swindell, E. 2026. Organizing the World’s Psychological Questionnaires: Pursuing Evidence-Based Assessment Through Better Knowledge Engineering. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Under review.</li>
            <li>Shafran, R., Bond, L., Carlbring, P., Cohen, Z., Creed, T.A., Davey, E., Egan, S.J., Freeman, D., Hollon, S.D., Jacobson, N.C., Johnson, C., Kaysen, D., McGuinness, D.L., Patel, V., Pozuelo, J.R., Santos, H., Singla, D.R., Stirman, S.W., Taylor, D., Wade, T.D. 2026. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2025.104945" target="_blank">From Innovation to Implementation: Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Behavior Therapy Training and Supervision.</a> Behaviour Research and Therapy. In press.</li>
            <li>Rook, K., Santos, H., McGuinness, D.L., Sprung, M.S., Pinheiro, P., Chorpita, B.F. 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/TGDK.3.3.3" target="_blank">Supporting Psychometric Instrument Usage through the POEM Ontology.</a> Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge 3(3).</li>
            <li>Rashid, S.M., McGuinness, D.L. 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3724/2096-7004.di.2025.0001" target="_blank">Designing and Evaluating an Ensemble Reasoning-based Clinical Decision Support System.</a> Data Intelligence 7(1).</li>
            <li>Rook, K., Santos, H., Chorpita, B.F., Sprung, M.S., Pinheiro, P., McGuinness, D.L. 2024. <a href="https://dspace.rpi.edu/items/609d1f68-9f15-4c27-ad04-52d9147222a6" target="_blank">Towards an Ontology of Psychometric Measures.</a> In The Healthcare and Life Sciences Symposium (HCLS), co-located with The 2024 Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC). New York, NY.</li>
            <li>Sprung, M.S., Santos, H., Rook, K., Pinheiro, P., McGuinness, D.L., Chorpita, B.F. 2024. <a href="https://dspace.rpi.edu/items/9ff847b9-40ef-418c-80d5-2425c9510981" target="_blank">Psychometric Assessment Issues and Potential Opportunities.</a> In The Healthcare and Life Sciences Symposium (HCLS), co-located with The 2024 Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC). New York, NY.</li>
            <li>Rook, K., Santos, H., Sprung, M.S., McGuinness, D.L., Chorpita, B.F. 2024. Semantic Modeling of Evidence for Psychometric Instrument Usage. Annual MCBK Global Meeting.</li>
            <li>Santos, H., Rook, K., Pinheiro, P., Chorpita, B.F., McGuinness, D.L. 2023. <a href="https://dspace.rpi.edu/items/ca73de16-d821-4e4d-b07c-d98790c3b4ba" target="_blank">Facilitating Reuse of Mental Health Questionnaires via Knowledge Graphs.</a> In The Healthcare and Life Sciences Symposium (HCLS), co-located with The 2023 Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC). New York, NY.</li>
            <li>Stingone, J.A., Mervish, N., Kovatch, P., McGuinness, D.L., Gennings, C., Teitelbaum, S.L. 2017. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28134706" target="_blank">Big and Disparate Data: Considerations for Pediatric Consortia.</a> Current Opinions in Pediatrics Journal 29(2).</li>
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