Evaluating the Performance of Transformer-based Language Models for Neuroatypical Language

no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Duanchen Liu, Zoey Liu, Qingyun Yang, Yujing Huang, Emily Prud’hommeaux

Difficulties with social aspects of language are among the hallmarks of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Taylor Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression

no code implementations • 28 Apr 2022 • Baihe He, Qiang Lu, Qingyun Yang, Jake Luo, Zhiguang Wang

So, the search process of GP is usually slow, and the final results could be unstable. To guide GP by these characteristics, we propose a new method for SR, called Taylor genetic programming (TaylorGP) (Code and appendix at https://kgae-cup. github. io/TaylorGP/).

regression Symbolic Regression

Predicting pragmatic discourse features in the language of adults with autism spectrum disorder

no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Christine Yang, Duanchen Liu, Qingyun Yang, Zoey Liu, Emily Prud{'}hommeaux

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties in social aspects of communication, but the linguistic characteristics associated with deficits in discourse and pragmatic expression are often difficult to precisely identify and quantify.

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