3 papers
cs.AI2026
Do LLMs Reliably Identify Correct Information Units in Aphasic Discourse?
Jason M Pittman, Yesenia Medina-Santos, Anton Phillips +1
Correct Information Units (CIUs) are central to discourse assessment in aphasia because they quantify communicative informativeness rather than linguistic form alone. However, CIU…
cs.LG2025
Practical Machine Learning for Aphasic Discourse Analysis
Jason M. Pittman, Anton Phillips, Yesenia Medina-Santos +1
Analyzing spoken discourse is a valid means of quantifying language ability in persons with aphasia. There are many ways to quantify discourse, one common way being to evaluate the…
cs.CL2025
Towards a Method for Synthetic Generation of Persons with Aphasia Transcripts
Jason M. Pittman, Anton Phillips, Yesenia Medina-Santos +1
In aphasia research, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) devote extensive time to manually coding speech samples using Correct Information Units (CIUs), a measure of how informativ…