Seminar 48 – Automatically assessing paraphasias in discourse: Breakthroughs and remaining challenges. Presentation by: Alexandra Salem, Oregon Health & Science University.
This talk will cover our recent efforts to automate assessment of paraphasias in discourse using machine learning. We will discuss methods for automatic paraphasia and target identification. We will cover problems we ran into, what we built to address those issues, and what work is still needed.
Alexandra Salem works as research staff for the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University. Her background is in computer science and her work focuses on automating assessment of language disorders using machine learning and natural language processing.
The March Seminar “Co-constructing Stories: Supporting People with Aphasia in Meaning-Making and Moving Forward” presented by Dr Katie Strong is now available on our YouTube Chanel