@inproceedings{44e8d950f4e04102a7a5afd0df4a9d84,
title = "Towards Precision Characterization of Communication Disorders using Models of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity",
abstract = "The diagnosis and treatment of individuals with communication disorders offers many opportunities for the application of speech technology, but research so far has not adequately considered: the diversity of conditions, the challenges of limited data, and the role of pragmatic deficits. This paper explores how a general-purpose model of perceived pragmatic similarity may overcome these limitations. It shows that a simple model can capture utterance aspects that are relevant to diagnosis of autism and of specific language impairment, outlines how it might support several use cases for clinicians and clients, and analyzes its performance and limitations.",
keywords = "atypical behavior, autism, dialog behaviors, low-resource tasks, precision medicine, pretraining, social interaction",
author = "Ward, \{Nigel G.\} and Andres Segura and Georgina Bugarini and Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier and Dancheng Liu and Jinjun Xiong and Olac Fuentes",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 IEEE.; 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 ; Conference date: 06-04-2025 Through 11-04-2025",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10890858",
language = "English",
series = "ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Rao, \{Bhaskar D\} and Isabel Trancoso and Gaurav Sharma and Mehta, \{Neelesh B.\}",
booktitle = "2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}