TY - GEN
T1 - Distributional semantic models for the evaluation of disordered language
AU - Rouhizadeh, Masoud
AU - Prud'Hommeaux, Emily
AU - Roark, Brian
AU - Van Santen, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Atypical semantic and pragmatic expression is frequently reported in the language of children with autism. Although this atypicality often manifests itself in the use of unusual or unexpected words and phrases, the rate of use of such unexpected words is rarely directly measured or quantified. In this paper, we use distributional semantic models to automatically identify unexpected words in narrative retellings by children with autism. The classification of unexpected words is sufficiently accurate to distinguish the retellings of children with autism from those with typical development. These techniques demonstrate the potential of applying automated language analysis techniques to clinically elicited language data for diagnostic purposes.
AB - Atypical semantic and pragmatic expression is frequently reported in the language of children with autism. Although this atypicality often manifests itself in the use of unusual or unexpected words and phrases, the rate of use of such unexpected words is rarely directly measured or quantified. In this paper, we use distributional semantic models to automatically identify unexpected words in narrative retellings by children with autism. The classification of unexpected words is sufficiently accurate to distinguish the retellings of children with autism from those with typical development. These techniques demonstrate the potential of applying automated language analysis techniques to clinically elicited language data for diagnostic purposes.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84926137747
T3 - NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference
SP - 709
EP - 714
BT - NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013
Y2 - 9 June 2013 through 14 June 2013
ER -