COMPUTER BASED MAPPING THERAPY FOR AGRAMMATISM

描述（改编自研究者摘要）：既往 研究，包括与联合国系统 首席研究员和共同首席研究员，建议， 语法-语义映射缺陷可能是语法语言的基础， 在不流利的布罗卡氏失语症中发现的生产障碍。 的一种形式 已经出现了被称为映射疗法的语法缺失症的治疗， 目标是语法功能之间的联系，如主语或宾语 和主位角色，如施事或主位，以及重要的处理 已经报告取得了进展。 一项大规模的研究调查了 映射治疗的疗效目前正在进行中的共同校长 调查员的实验室。 此处提议的Unisys-Moss合作 直接建立在这项工作，有以下目标：1） 开发一种基于计算机的语法缺失标测治疗系统， 目标是涉及这一点的心理语言学操作的全方位 映射：提供关于 患者反应的准确性;并系统地操作 动画和句子材料，以加强基于 语法结构而不是语言外策略; 2）测试 该系统的功效通过十个单一的案例研究 语法缺失患者，追踪语言内泛化 （从一种语言结构到另一种语言结构的处理效果）和额外的- 语言泛化（“扩大治疗效果， 越来越具有挑战性的背景）; 3）分析内部模式， 语言概括，特别关注关于 泛化是基于短语结构还是 已训练和未训练的谓词论元结构 （4）发展并逐步融入其中 治疗系统的自动识别能力， 语法的解释。 Unisys口语 理解系统PUNDIT，其中主要研究者是一个 开发商，将作为这项研究的基础。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): Previous research, including studies emerging from collaboration between the principal investigator and co-principal investigator, has suggested that a syntax-semantics mapping deficit may underlie the agrammatic language production disorder found in non-fluent Broca's aphasics. A form of treatment for agrammatism known as mapping therapy has emerged which targets the link between grammatical functions such as subject or object and thematic roles such as Agent or Theme, and significant treatment gains have already been reported. A large-scale study investigating the efficacy of mapping therapy is currently underway in the co-principal investigator's laboratory. The Unisys-Moss collaboration proposed here builds directly upon this work, with the following objectives: 1) To develop a computer-based mapping therapy system for agrammatism which targets the full range of psycholinguistic operations involved in this mapping: provides immediate, linguistically explicit feedback about the accuracy of patients' responses; and systematically manipulates both animations and sentence materials to reinforce mapping based upon grammatical structure rather than extralinguistic strategies; 2) to test the efficacy of this system through single case studies of ten agrammatic patients, tracking both intra-linguistic generalization (treatment effects from one linguistic structure to another) and extra- linguistic generalization ('scaling up of treatment effects to increasingly challenging context); 3) to analyze patterns of intra- linguistic generalization with particular concern for evidence about whether generalization occurs on the basis of phrase structure or predicate argument structure shared by the trained and untrained structures; 4) to develop and incrementally incorporate into this therapy system the capability for the automatic recognition and interpretation of agrammatic speech. The Unisys spoken language understanding system PUNDIT, of which the principal investigator is a developer, will serve as the basis for this research.