Social language in autism spectrum disorder: A computational analysis of sentiment and linguistic abstraction.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate impairments with pragmatic (social) language, including narrative skills and conversational abilities. We aimed to quantitatively characterize narrative performance in ASD using natural language processing techniques: sentiment and language abstraction analyses based on the Linguistic Category Model. Individuals with ASD and with typical development matched for age, gender, ethnicity, and verbal and nonverbal intelligence quotients produced language samples during two standardized tasks from the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition assessment: Telling a Story from a Book and Description of a Picture. Only the narratives produced during the Book Task differed between ASD and control groups in terms of emotional po

SUBMITTER: Chojnicka I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7059930 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature