A corpus-based approach for the prediction of language impairment in monolingual English and Spanish-English bilingual children

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-55

  Gabani, Keyur ^a   Sherman, Melissa ^a   Solorio, Thamar ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Bedore, Lisa M ^b   Peña, Elizabeth D ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84863365118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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