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Morphological Language Features of Anorexia Patients Based on Natural Language Processing

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Information Technology in Biomedicine (ITIB 2022)

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The aim of the article is to compare the morphological features of language between people suffering from anorexia and healthy people. The research was conducted in cooperation with the Medical University of Silesia on the basis of a pilot group of people: 41 from anorexia patients and 55 from healthy young females. The study focuses on the statistics for the following parts of speech: personal pronoun ‘I’, possessive adjective ‘my’ verbs, adjectives. Several significant differences were detected, including abnormal usage of the personal pronoun ‘I’ and mostly verb ‘to be’, and action verbs by anorectic people. In the future, it is planned to conduct the research on a larger group of patients and include the descriptions of the drawings in the re-search.

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  1. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Roosevelta 40, 41-800, Zabrze, Poland

    Stella Maćkowska, Klaudia Barańska, Agnieszka Różańska & Dominik Spinczyk

  2. Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, ul. Roentgena 5, 02-781, Warsaw, Poland

    Klaudia Barańska

  3. Central Laboratory of Clinical Psychology, Independent Public University Hospital No 1 in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, ul. 3 Maja 13/15, 41-800, Zabrze, Poland

    Katarzyna Rojewska

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Maćkowska, S., Barańska, K., Różańska, A., Rojewska, K., Spinczyk, D. (2022). Morphological Language Features of Anorexia Patients Based on Natural Language Processing. In: Pietka, E., Badura, P., Kawa, J., Wieclawek, W. (eds) Information Technology in Biomedicine. ITIB 2022. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09135-3_9

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