A Tool for Automatic Scoring of Spelling Performance.

ABSTRACT: Purpose The evaluation of spelling performance in aphasia reveals deficits in written language and can facilitate the design of targeted writing treatments. Nevertheless, manual scoring of spelling performance is time-consuming, laborious, and error prone. We propose a novel method based on the use of distance metrics to automatically score spelling. This study compares six automatic distance metrics to identify the metric that best corresponds to the gold standard-manual scoring-using data from manually obtained spelling scores from individuals with primary progressive aphasia. Method Three thousand five hundred forty word and nonword spelling productions from 42 individuals with primary progressive aphasia were scored manually. The gold standard-the manual scores-were compared to scores

SUBMITTER: Themistocleous C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8608207 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature