Exploring a corpus-based approach for detecting language impairment in monolingual English-speaking children

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 161-170

  Gabani, Keyur ^a   Solorio, Thamar ^b   Liu, Yang ^b   Hassanali, Khairun nisa ^b   Dollaghan, Christine A ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of orthographic transcriptions; Language impairment; Machine learning; Monolingual English speaking children; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; MACHINE-LEARNING; MONOLINGUAL ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; NARRATIVE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NARRATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS;

EID: 80054051316     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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