Gutiérrez-Cordero Ismael, García-Orza Javier
Numerical Cognition Lab, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Department of Basic Psychology, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2025 Feb 14;16:1538196. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1538196. eCollection 2025.
Manual classification of production errors and the allocation of speech/spelling scores are time-consuming, laborious and error-prone tasks, even when conducted by clinicians and specialized researchers. Here we present , an R package developed to improve the analysis of language production quality for Spanish data. The package offers various functions, including (1) managing dataframes containing single responses and multiple-attempt responses, (2) conducting formal similarity analyses on words as well as positional accuracy data analyses within words, and (3) the classification of errors by considering lexicality, formal similarity and semantic similarity indexes, which are obtained by means of different algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques such as word2vec. The applications of , which is the first open-source package of its kind, include assessing whether production quality improves over the course of multiple attempts, and identifying which aspects of an individual's productions are most impacted by their impairments. Other potential applications include the analysis of whether improvements arise in a patient's production quality after a given treatment, distinguishing between cases of apraxia of speech and conduction aphasia, as well as simply using the package to improve and speed up the classification of speech/spelling errors with large datasets through automation.
即使由临床医生和专业研究人员进行,对生产错误进行人工分类以及分配语音/拼写分数也是耗时、费力且容易出错的任务。在此,我们展示了一个R包,它是为改进对西班牙语数据的语言生产质量分析而开发的。该包提供了各种功能,包括(1)管理包含单个反应和多次尝试反应的数据框,(2)对单词进行形式相似性分析以及对单词内的位置准确性数据分析,以及(3)通过考虑词汇性、形式相似性和语义相似性指标对错误进行分类,这些指标是通过不同算法和诸如word2vec等人工智能技术获得的。这是同类中的首个开源包,其应用包括评估生产质量在多次尝试过程中是否有所提高,以及确定个体生产的哪些方面受其损伤影响最大。其他潜在应用包括分析患者在接受特定治疗后其生产质量是否有所改善,区分言语失用症和传导性失语症病例,以及简单地使用该包通过自动化来改进和加速对大型数据集的语音/拼写错误分类。