Abstract
Verbal communication disorders are a hallmark of many neurological and psychiatric illnesses. Recent developments in computational analysis provide objective characterizations of these language abnormalities. We conducted a meta-analysis assessing semantic space models as a diagnostic or prognostic tool in psychiatric or neurological disorders. Diagnostic test accuracy analyses revealed reasonable sensitivity and specificity and high overall efficacy in differentiating between patients and controls (n=1680: Hedges’ g =.73, p=.001). Analyses of full sentences (Hedges’ g =.95 p
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 85-92 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |
Volume | 93 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2018 |
Keywords
- Natural language processing
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Semantic space
- Vector space
- attention deficit disorder
- autism
- dementia
- diagnostic accuracy
- differential diagnosis
- human
- mental disease
- meta analysis
- neurologic disease
- Parkinson disease
- priority journal
- psychosis
- receiver operating characteristic
- review
- semantic space model
- semantics
- sensitivity and specificity
- systematic review
- verbal communication