LINGUIST List 30.4403
Tue Nov 19 2019
FYI: Online lecture, Gerasimos Fergadiotis: Anomia
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 13-Nov-2019
From: Dirk Den Ouden <denouden
sc.edu>
Subject: Online lecture, Gerasimos Fergadiotis: Anomia
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https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/667426173 http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/ Assessment of anomia: Improving efficiency and utility
Gerasimos Fergadiotis, PhD., CCC-SLP
Portland State University
Anomia is a core feature of aphasia, a disorder affecting at least 2.5 million Americans. Sensitive metrics are needed to support investigations of the cognitive mechanisms underlying anomia, clinical decision making, and treatment research. To be optimally useful, these metrics must be validated within a rigorous psychometric framework to (i) efficiently provide information about a patient’s overall severity, (ii) support repeated assessments without threatening internal validity or measurement precision, (iii) be easily integrated into computerized adaptive testing platforms, and (iv) reliably categorize paraphasias in order to shed light to patients’ cognitive-linguistic deficits. To this end, I will discuss two distinct yet highly related lines of research. First, I will focus on our efforts to engineer a psychometrically robust computer adaptive anomia test within an item response theory framework. Second, I will present some successes and some challenges in using natural language processing techniques to algorithmically classify paraphasias.
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Room #140, Discovery I, 915 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208
Date: Thursday November 21st, 2019, Time: 2pm – 3pm ET
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Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
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