Measurement of communication ability at the discourse level holds promise for predicting
how well persons with stable (eg, stroke-induced), or progressive aphasia navigate …

Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production provides a comprehensive review
and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse …

Background: Differences in lexical diversity (LD) across different discourse elicitation tasks
have been found in neurologically intact adults (NIA)(Fergadiotis, Wright, & Capilouto,) but …

We commonly use agreement measures to assess the utility of judgements made by human
annotators in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. While inter-annotator agreement is …

Background: Semi-spontaneous speech production tasks are commonly elicited to assess
discourse ability. When knowledge of a topic, story, or event is shared, it is possible to gauge …

The purpose of the present research was to examine the influence of cognitive processes on
discourse global coherence ability measured across different discourse tasks and collected …

Purpose We sought to identify the core lexicon of a picture-description task using transcripts
from the AphasiaBank database and to determine differences in core-lexicon usage …

This study examined the narrative discourse production and executive function (EF) abilities
of 46 neuro-typical adults (18–98 years old). Two questions were addressed: Is the analysis …

Background Discourse analysis procedures are time consuming and impractical in a clinical
setting. Critical to clinicians are simple and informative discourse measures that require …

Purpose: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) commonly causes pragmatic language
disorders that are apparent in discourse production. Specific characteristics and approaches …