Publikation
Automatic detection of language impairment
Hali Lindsay; Johannes Tröger; Nicklas Linz; Jan Alexandersson; Johannes Prudlo
In: Proceedings of 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing-2019), Pages 133-136, International Society of Experimental Linguistics, 2019.
Zusammenfassung
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that presents with cognitive impairment (CI) in up to 50% of cases. In this study, we consider 17 healthy controls’ and 61 ALS patients’—16 with CI and 45 without CI— performances on the cookie theft picture description task. Measures of language impairment are automated and used to evaluate the entire ALS population. Results show that both ALS patients with and without CI show statistically significant differences from healthy controls over four language features.