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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Intell Based Med. 2023 Mar 15;7:100097. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmed.2023.100097

Table 1.

Linguistic features of patient interview transcripts.

LIWC CATEGORY EXAMPLES
POSITIVE EMOTIONS Love, nice, sweet
NEGATIVE EMOTION Hurt, ugly, nasty
FEELING Feels, touch
BIOLOGIC PROCESSES Eat, blood, pain
BODY Cheek, hands, spit
HEALTH Clinic, flu, pill
PAST-FOCUSED Ago, did, talked
PRESENT-FOCUSED Today, is, now
FUTURE-FOCUSED May, will, soon

Abbreviations: LIWC, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count.

The nine LIWC categories used for construction of the baseline predictive model. The right column gives examples of words falling into each category.