An AI-Powered Culturally Aware Chatbot for Stress Detection and Wellness Support among Pakistani University Students Using NLP and Machine Learning

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.11199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the existing digital mental health tools specifically developed for Western settings, Pakistani students are exposed to a uniquely compounded stress situation in their university that includes academic, financial, familial, and relational stressors, which have become a serious concern for academic and psychological development of students in Pakistani universities. This paper introduces a new, AI-driven and culturally sensitive stress detection and wellness support system that is tailored to the context of Pakistani university students. The system is based on a machine learning model called Random Forest which is trained using a validated student stress data set of 1100 responses on 20 features from psychological, physiological, academic