Almost 50 million people are living with dementia in 2018 worldwide, and the number will
double every 20 years. The effectiveness of existing pharmacologic treatments for the …

This paper presents some preliminary results of the OPLON project. It aimed at identifying
early linguistic symptoms of cognitive decline in the elderly. This pilot study was conducted …

A timely diagnosis of the prodromal stages of dementia remains a big challenge for
healthcare systems: many assessment tools have been proposed over recent years, but the …

Abstract Digital Linguistic Biomarkers extracted from spontaneous language productions
proved to be very useful for the early detection of various mental disorders. This paper …

Cross-linguistic research has brought extensive evidence on how languages differ in their
categorization of actions and events, pointing out the differences in the semantic categories …

Recent works indicated the potential relevance of Natural Language Processing techniques
for the detection of clinical conditions. This paper tries to address the issue in the Eating …

This paper describes an experiment that compares the performance of a Conditional
Random Fields model on identification of Multiword expressions in corpora of spoken and …

L'articolo si propone di fornire una panoramica del contributo che la linguistica, e in
particolare la linguistica computazionale, può fornire in ambito clinico per lo screening e la …

IMAGACT is a corpus-based ontology of action concepts, derived from English and Italian
spontaneous speech resources, which makes use of the universal language of images to …

This paper describes a method to measure the lexical gap of action verbs in Italian and
English by using the IMAGACT ontology of action. The fine-grained categorization of action …