Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Automatic Analysis of Children's Language Samples: Where Do We Go from Here?

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftÜbersichtsarbeitForschungPeer-Review

Autoren

  • Ulrike Lüdtke
  • Juan Bornman
  • Febe De Wet
  • Ulrich Heid
  • Jörn Ostermann
  • Lars Rumberg
  • Jeannie Van Der Linde
  • Hanna Ehlert

Externe Organisationen

  • University of Pretoria
  • North-West University (NWU)
  • Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1-12
Seitenumfang12
FachzeitschriftFolia phoniatrica et logopaedica
Jahrgang75
Ausgabenummer1
Frühes Online-Datum7 Okt. 2022
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 24 Jan. 2023

Abstract

Background: Language sample analysis (LSA) is invaluable to describe and understand child language use and development for clinical purposes and research. Digital tools supporting LSA are available, but many of the LSA steps have not been automated. Nevertheless, programs that include automatic speech recognition (ASR), the first step of LSA, have already reached mainstream applicability. Summary: To better understand the complexity, challenges, and future needs of automatic LSA from a technological perspective, including the tasks of transcribing, annotating, and analysing natural child language samples, this article takes on a multidisciplinary view. Requirements of a fully automated LSA process are characterized, features of existing LSA software tools compared, and prior work from the disciplines of information science and computational linguistics reviewed. Key Messages: Existing tools vary in their extent of automation provided across the process of LSA. Advances in machine learning for speech recognition and processing have potential to facilitate LSA, but the specifics of child speech and language as well as the lack of child data complicate software design. A transdisciplinary approach is recommended as feasible to support future software development for LSA.

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Automatic Analysis of Children's Language Samples: Where Do We Go from Here? / Lüdtke, Ulrike; Bornman, Juan; De Wet, Febe et al.
in: Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica, Jahrgang 75, Nr. 1, 24.01.2023, S. 1-12.

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftÜbersichtsarbeitForschungPeer-Review

Lüdtke U, Bornman J, De Wet F, Heid U, Ostermann J, Rumberg L et al. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Automatic Analysis of Children's Language Samples: Where Do We Go from Here? Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica. 2023 Jan 24;75(1):1-12. Epub 2022 Okt 7. doi: 10.1159/000527427
Lüdtke, Ulrike ; Bornman, Juan ; De Wet, Febe et al. / Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Automatic Analysis of Children's Language Samples : Where Do We Go from Here?. in: Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica. 2023 ; Jahrgang 75, Nr. 1. S. 1-12.
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