Exploring Word Class N-grams to Measure Language Development in Children
Gabriela Ramírez-de-la-Rosa, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes, Yang Liu, Lisa M. Bedore, Elizabeth D. Peña, Aquiles Iglesias · Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2013
We present a set of new measures designed to reveal latent information of language use in children at the lexico-syntactic level. We used these metrics to analyze linguistic patterns in spontaneous narratives from children developing typically and children identified as having a language impairment. We observed significant differences in the z-scores of both populations for most of the metrics. These findings suggest we can use these metrics to aid in the task of language assessment in children.