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LLMs show promise in identifying discourse units for aphasia assessment

A new research paper explores the use of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) for classifying Correct Information Units (CIUs) in aphasic discourse. The study found that while zero-shot prompting was insufficient, few-shot prompting significantly improved performance for models like Llama 3.1:8b, qwen2.5:7b, and mistral:7b, achieving competitive results with human annotators. However, the LLMs showed high recall but lower precision, indicating a tendency to over-classify tokens as CIUs, and performance varied with aphasia severity. AI

IMPACT LLM prompting shows potential for automated CIU identification in aphasia assessment, offering a human-in-the-loop solution.

RANK_REASON Research paper published on arXiv detailing LLM performance on a specific linguistic task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jason M Pittman, Yesenia Medina-Santos, Anton Phillips Jr., Brielle C. Stark ·

    Do LLMs Reliably Identify Correct Information Units in Aphasic Discourse?

    arXiv:2606.15696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Correct Information Units (CIUs) are central to discourse assessment in aphasia because they quantify communicative informativeness rather than linguistic form alone. However, CIU scoring is time intensive and requires trained rater…