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Fromm, Davida; MacWhinney, Brian; Thompson, Cynthia K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Analysis of spontaneous speech samples is important for determining patterns of language production in people with aphasia. To accomplish this, researchers and clinicians can use either hand coding or computer-automated methods. In a comparison of the two methods using the hand-coding NNLA (Northwestern Narrative Language Analysis) and…
Descriptors: Automation, Computational Linguistics, Aphasia, Coding
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Stark, Brielle C.; Dutta, Manaswita; Murray, Laura L.; Fromm, Davida; Bryant, Lucy; Harmon, Tyson G.; Ramage, Amy E.; Roberts, Angela C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Spoken discourse analysis is commonly employed in the assessment and treatment of people living with aphasia, yet there is no standardization in assessment, analysis, or reporting procedures, thereby precluding comparison/meta-analyses of data and hindering replication of findings. An important first step is to identify current practices…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Evaluation, Aphasia, Meta Analysis
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Dalton, Sarah Grace; Stark, Brielle C.; Fromm, Davida; Apple, Kristen; MacWhinney, Brian; Rensch, Amanda; Rowedder, Madyson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study was to advance the use of structured, monologic discourse analysis by validating an automated scoring procedure for core lexicon (CoreLex) using transcripts. Method: Forty-nine transcripts from persons with aphasia and 48 transcripts from persons with no brain injury were retrieved from the AphasiaBank database. Five…
Descriptors: Validity, Discourse Analysis, Databases, Scoring
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Fromm, Davida; Greenhouse, Joel; Hou, Kaiyue; Russell, G. Austin; Cai, Xizhen; Forbes, Margaret; Holland, Audrey; MacWhinney, Brian – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: This study evaluates how proposition density can differentiate between persons with aphasia (PWA) and individuals in a control group, as well as among subtypes of aphasia, on the basis of procedural discourse and personal narratives collected from large samples of participants. Method: Participants were 195 PWA and 168 individuals in a…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Control Groups, Personal Narratives, Comparative Analysis