Article ; Online: Natural Language Processing markers in first episode psychosis and people at clinical high-risk.
2021 Volume 11, Issue 1, Page(s) 630
Abstract: Recent work has suggested that disorganised speech might be a powerful predictor of later psychotic illness in clinical high risk subjects. To that end, several automated measures to quantify disorganisation of transcribed speech have been proposed. ... ...
| Abstract | Recent work has suggested that disorganised speech might be a powerful predictor of later psychotic illness in clinical high risk subjects. To that end, several automated measures to quantify disorganisation of transcribed speech have been proposed. However, it remains unclear which measures are most strongly associated with psychosis, how different measures are related to each other and what the best strategies are to collect speech data from participants. Here, we assessed whether twelve automated Natural Language Processing markers could differentiate transcribed speech excerpts from subjects at clinical high risk for psychosis, first episode psychosis patients and healthy control subjects (total N = 54). In-line with previous work, several measures showed significant differences between groups, including semantic coherence, speech graph connectivity and a measure of whether speech was on-topic, the latter of which outperformed the related measure of tangentiality. Most NLP measures examined were only weakly related to each other, suggesting they provide complementary information. Finally, we compared the ability of transcribed speech generated using different tasks to differentiate the groups. Speech generated from picture descriptions of the Thematic Apperception Test and a story re-telling task outperformed free speech, suggesting that choice of speech generation method may be an important consideration. Overall, quantitative speech markers represent a promising direction for future clinical applications. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Biomarkers ; Cognition ; Humans ; Natural Language Processing ; Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis ; Speech |
| Chemical Substances | Biomarkers |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-12-13 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ZDB-ID | 2609311-X |
| ISSN | 2158-3188 ; 2158-3188 |
| ISSN (online) | 2158-3188 |
| ISSN | 2158-3188 |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41398-021-01722-y |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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