• Computer Science > Sound [Submitted on 27 Jan 2026] Title:Graph Modelling Analysis of Speech-Gesture Interaction for Aphasia Severity Estimation View PDFAbstract:Aphasia is an acquired language disorder caused by injury to the regions of the brain that are responsible for language. • Aphasia may impair the use and comprehension of written and spoken language. • The Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R) is an assessment tool administered by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to evaluate the aphasia type and severity. • Because the WAB-R measures isolated linguistic skills, there has been growing interest in the assessment of discourse production as a more holistic representation of everyday language abilities. • Recent advancements in speech analysis focus on automated estimation of aphasia severity from spontaneous speech, relying mostly in isolated linguistic or acoustical features. • In this work, we propose a graph neural network-based framework for estimating aphasia severity.

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  • Computer Science > Sound [Submitted on 27 Jan 2026] Title:Graph Modelling Analysis of Speech-Gesture Interaction for Aphasia Severity Estimation View PDFAbstract:Aphasia is an acquired language disorder caused by injury to the regions of the brain that are responsible for language. Aphasia may impair the use and comprehension of written and spoken language. The Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R) is an assessment tool administered by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to evaluate the aphasia type and severity. Because the WAB-R measures isolated linguistic skills, there has been growing i

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