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000042766 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6083/bpxhc42766
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000042766 245__ $$aComputationally characterizing communicative content and context in autistic children
000042766 260__ $$bOregon Health and Science University
000042766 269__ $$a2024-03-20
000042766 336__ $$aDissertation
000042766 502__ $$bPh.D.
000042766 502__ $$gComputer Science & Engineering
000042766 520__ $$aPragmatic language difficulties are common among autistic children, and assessment of pragmatic language skills over time is an important predictor of quality of life outcomes during adulthood. Current metrics for pragmatic language are qualitative in design and are expensive in terms of time and resources. With the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods, robust measures of pragmatic language features can be obtained in an automated, reliable, and relatively inexpensive fashion. Such metrics can be used to augment traditional pragmatic language assessments. Improving our understanding of how autistic individuals use language not only helps us learn how to become better conversational partners ourselves, but also enables us to build language tools that accommodate for pragmatic language differences. In this dissertation, we leverage traditional statistical methods to adapt and augment established NLP techniques to investigate three areas of pragmatic language that autistic children are known to have difficulty with.
000042766 540__ $$fCC BY
000042766 542__ $$fIn copyright - single owner
000042766 650__ $$aAutism Spectrum Disorder$$011199
000042766 650__ $$aNatural Language Processing$$022716
000042766 650__ $$aAutistic Disorder$$015231
000042766 650__ $$aQuality of Life$$025032
000042766 650__ $$aMultivariate Analysis$$028808
000042766 6531_ $$acomputational linguistics
000042766 6531_ $$afiller linguistics
000042766 6531_ $$atopic modeling
000042766 6531_ $$abackchannels
000042766 691__ $$aSchool of Medicine$$041369
000042766 692__ $$aCenter for Spoken Language Understanding$$041388
000042766 7001_ $$aLawley, Grace$$uOregon Health and Science University$$041354$$10000-0002-8265-6411
000042766 8564_ $$9c7e1e208-dc9c-4244-ae9e-6b9521524e98$$s940944$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42766/files/Lawley.Grace.2024.pdf
000042766 909CO $$ooai:digitalcollections.ohsu.edu:42766$$pstudent-work
000042766 980__ $$aTheses and Dissertations
000042766 981__ $$aPublished$$b2024-03-21