Automated grammatical tagging of child language samples.

Recent studies of the automated grammatical categorization ('tagging') of words using probabilistic methods have reported substantial levels of accuracy--over 95% agreement with manual tagging for words from a variety of texts. However, the texts with which this method has been tested were written b...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 727 - 735
Autores principales: Channell RW, Johnson BW
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jun1999
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        affil: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
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          Grammar Evaluation
          Speech Sample In Infancy and Childhood
          Speech and Language Assessment Methods
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          Conversation
          Probability
          Comparative Studies
          Automation
          Child, Preschool
          Child
          Software
          Reliability
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Collection Methods
          Human
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Child: 6-12 years
      ab: Recent studies of the automated grammatical categorization ('tagging') of words using probabilistic methods have reported substantial levels of accuracy--over 95% agreement with manual tagging for words from a variety of texts. However, the texts with which this method has been tested were written by adults and edited by publishers. The present study examined the accuracy with which such methods could tag transcribed conversational language samples from 30 normally developing children. On a word-by-word basis, automated accuracy levels ranged from 92.9% to 97.4%, averaging 95.1%. Accuracy at correctly tagging whole utterances was lower, ranging from 60.5% to 90.3%, with an average of 77.7%. Probabilistic methods of coding language samples hold potential as a viable tool for child language research. Further study and improvement of automated grammatical tagging is warranted and necessary before widespread use can be made of this technology.
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