Medical Linguistics

[stoutfellow]

Here's an interesting article on the use of computational linguistics to predict the likelihood of dementia - decades in advance! More study is needed, but this is definitely intriguing.

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... after following the link, it looks like Flesch's work is what's used for saying what my reading level was through school. Funny! It always amused me to be reading many grade-levels above the grade I was in. :-)

The original article is very interesting, though. But is a bit depressing if it's true that predictors are valid that early!