[HTML][HTML] Multilingual word embeddings for the assessment of narrative speech in mild cognitive impairment

KC Fraser, KL Fors, D Kokkinakis - Computer Speech & Language, 2019 - Elsevier
We analyze the information content of narrative speech samples from individuals with mild
cognitive impairment (MCI), in both English and Swedish, using a combination of supervised …

Linguistic features identify Alzheimer's disease in narrative speech

KC Fraser, JA Meltzer… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Background: Although memory impairment is the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), language impairment can be an important marker. Relatively few studies of language …

[PDF][PDF] Detecting semantic changes in Alzheimer's disease with vector space models

KC Fraser, G Hirst - Proceedings of LREC 2016 Workshop: Resources …, 2016 - lrec-conf.org
Numerous studies have shown that language impairments, particularly semantic deficits, are
evident in the narrative speech of people with Alzheimer's disease from the earliest stages of …

[PDF][PDF] Detecting mild cognitive impairment by exploiting linguistic information from transcripts

V Vincze, G Gosztolya, L Tóth, I Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Here we seek to automatically identify Hungarian patients suffering from mild cognitive
impairment (MCI) based on linguistic features collected from their speech transcripts. Our …

[PDF][PDF] Speech Recognition in Alzheimer's Disease and in its Assessment.

L Zhou, KC Fraser, F Rudzicz - Interspeech, 2016 - isca-archive.org
Narrative, spontaneous speech can provide a valuable source of information about an
individual's cognitive state. Unfortunately, clinical transcription of this type of data is typically …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting dementia from spontaneous speech using large language models

F Agbavor, H Liang - PLOS digital health, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Language impairment is an important biomarker of neurodegenerative disorders such as
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly natural language processing …

Machine learning approaches to diagnosis and laterality effects in semantic dementia discourse

P Garrard, V Rentoumi, B Gesierich, B Miller… - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
Advances in automatic text classification have been necessitated by the rapid increase in
the availability of digital documents. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can 'learn'from data …

[PDF][PDF] Multiscale System for Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition Through Spontaneous Speech.

E Edwards, C Dognin, B Bollepalli, MK Singh… - …, 2020 - interspeech2020.org
This paper describes the Verisk submission to The ADReSS Challenge [1]. We analyze the
text data at both the word level and phoneme level, which leads to our best-performing …

[HTML][HTML] Language impairment in Alzheimer's disease—robust and explainable evidence for ad-related deterioration of spontaneous speech through multilingual …

H Lindsay, J Tröger, A König - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a pervasive neurodegenerative disease that affects millions
worldwide and is most prominently associated with broad cognitive decline, including …

[PDF][PDF] Vector-space topic models for detecting Alzheimer's disease

M Yancheva, F Rudzicz - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Semantic deficit is a symptom of language impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We
present a generalizable method for automatic generation of information content units (ICUs) …