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Linguistic feature of anorexia nervosa: a prospective case–control pilot study
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Cuteri, Vittoria; Minori, Giulia; Gagliardi, Gloria; Tamburini, Fabio; Malaspina, Elisabetta; Gualandi, Paola; Rossi, Francesca; Moscano, Milena; Francia, Valentina; Parmeggiani, Antonia
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In: Eat Weight Disord (2021)
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PURPOSE: Attention has recently been paid to Clinical Linguistics for the detection and support of clinical conditions. Many works have been published on the “linguistic profile” of various clinical populations, but very few papers have been devoted to linguistic changes in patients with eating disorders. Patients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) share similar psychological features such as disturbances in self-perceived body image, inflexible and obsessive thinking and anxious or depressive traits. We hypothesize that these characteristics can result in altered linguistic patterns and be detected using the Natural Language Processing tools. METHODS: We enrolled 51 young participants from December 2019 to February 2020 (age range: 14–18): 17 girls with a clinical diagnosis of AN, and 34 normal-weighted peers, matched by gender, age and educational level. Participants in each group were asked to produce three written texts (around 10–15 lines long). A rich set of linguistic features was extracted from the text samples and the statistical significance in pinpointing the pathological process was measured. RESULTS: Comparison between the two groups showed several linguistics indexes as statistically significant, with syntactic reduction as the most relevant trait of AN productions. In particular, the following features emerge as statistically significant in distinguishing AN girls and their normal-weighted peers: the length of the sentences, the complexity of the noun phrase, and the global syntactic complexity. This peculiar pattern of linguistic erosion may be due to the severe metabolic impairment also affecting the central nervous system in AN. CONCLUSION: These preliminary data showed the existence of linguistic parameters as probable linguistic markers of AN. However, the analysis of a bigger cohort, still ongoing, is needed to consolidate this assumption. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: Evidence obtained from case–control analytic studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40519-021-01273-7.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01273-7
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34309776
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311399/
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Græcissâre: Ancient Greek Loanwords in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin
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UDante: First Steps Towards the Universal Dependencies Treebank of Dante's Latin Works
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MultiEmotions-it: A new dataset for opinion polarity and emotion analysis for Italian
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Sprugnoli, R. (orcid:0000-0001-6861-5595). - : Accademia University Press, 2020. : country:ITA, 2020. : place:Torino, 2020
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Enhancing the Latin Morphological Analyser LEMLAT with a Medieval Latin Glossary
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Using and evaluating TRACER for an Index fontium computatus of the Summa contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas
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The iDAI.publication: Extracting and Linking Information in the Publications of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
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Mambrini, Francesco (orcid:0000-0003-0834-7562). - : CEUR-WS, 2018. : country:ITA, 2018. : place:Torino, 2018
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Modelling Italian construction flexibility with distributional semantics: are constructions enough?
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Speech Analysis by Natural Language Processing Techniques: A Possible Tool for Very Early Detection of Cognitive Decline?
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