A standard rule-based system was used to evaluate the presence, accuracy, and
completeness of main concepts in the connected speech of 20 non-brain-damaged adults …

A standardized rule-based scoring system, the Correct Information Unit (CIU) analysis, was
used to evaluate the informativeness and efficiency of the connected speech of 20 non-brain …

Purpose The purposes of this study are to provide clinicians and researchers with
introductory psychometric data for the main concept analysis (MCA), a measure of discourse …

Discourse produced by speakers with aphasia contains rich and valuable information for
researchers to understand the manifestation of aphasia as well as for clinicians to plan …

Abstract Aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged, and non-brain-damaged subjects heard short
narrative paragraphs. Each paragraph contained four main ideas and one or more details …

The Correct Information Unit (CIU) analysis for measuring the communicative
informativeness and efficiency of connected speech (Nicholas & Brookshire, 1993) was …

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 this study was to develop a technique for quantifying connected speech
samples of aphasic individuals as they recover from the moderate to the mild range of …

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 …

Measuring communicative informativeness under conversational discourse conditions is
perhaps the most valid means of determining the interpersonal verbal communication …