Finding Instances of Deduction and Abduction in Clinical Experimental Transcripts

  • Authors:
  • Maria Amalfi;Katia Lo Presti;Alessandro Provetti;Franco Salvetti

  • Affiliations:
  • Grad. Student at University of Messina, Italy. maria.amalfi@gmail.com;Grad. Student at University of Messina, Italy. katia.lopresti@gmail.com;Dept. of Physics University of Messina, Italy. E-mail: ale@unime.it;Umbria Inc. Boulder CO U.S.A. E-mail: franco.salvetti@umbrialistens.com

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This article describes the design and implementation of a prototype that analyzes and classifies transcripts of interviews collected during an experiment that involved lateral-brain damage patients. The patients' utterances are classified as instances of categorization, prediction and explanation (abduction) based on surface linguistic cues. The agreement between our automatic classifier and human annotators is measured. The agreement is statistically significant, thus showing that the classification can be performed in an automatic fashion.