Connected speech in neurodegenerative language disorders: a review

V Boschi, E Catricala, M Consonni, C Chesi… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Language assessment has a crucial role in the clinical diagnosis of several
neurodegenerative diseases. The analysis of extended speech production is a precious …

Automated classification of primary progressive aphasia subtypes from narrative speech transcripts

KC Fraser, JA Meltzer, NL Graham, C Leonard, G Hirst… - cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
In the early stages of neurodegenerative disorders, individuals may exhibit a decline in
language abilities that is difficult to quantify with standardized tests. Careful analysis of …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-based evaluation of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment patients during a picture description task

L Hernández-Domínguez, S Ratté… - Alzheimer's & Dementia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction We present a methodology to automatically evaluate the performance of
patients during picture description tasks. Methods Transcriptions and audio recordings of the …

Do models of mental health based on social media data generalize?

K Harrigian, C Aguirre, M Dredze - Findings of the association for …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Proxy-based methods for annotating mental health status in social media have grown
popular in computational research due to their ability to gather large training samples …

Proactive screening for depression through metaphorical and automatic text analysis

Y Neuman, Y Cohen, D Assaf, G Kedma - Artificial intelligence in medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Proactive and automatic screening for depression is a challenge facing the
public health system. This paper describes a system for addressing the above challenge …

Using narratives in differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative syndromes

Y Faroqi-Shah, A Treanor, NB Ratner, B Ficek… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Language decline has been associated with healthy aging and with various
neurodegenerative conditions, making it challenging to differentiate among these …

Automatic identification of mild cognitive impairment through the analysis of Italian spontaneous speech productions

D Beltrami, L Calzà, G Gagliardi… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
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 …

Enriching complex networks with word embeddings for detecting mild cognitive impairment from speech transcripts

LB Santos, EA Corrêa Jr, ON Oliveira Jr… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a mental disorder difficult to diagnose. Linguistic
features, mainly from parsers, have been used to detect MCI, but this is not suitable for large …

Idea density for predicting Alzheimer's disease from transcribed speech

K Sirts, O Piguet, M Johnson - arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04473, 2017 - arxiv.org
Idea Density (ID) measures the rate at which ideas or elementary predications are
expressed in an utterance or in a text. Lower ID is found to be associated with an increased …

Evaluating progression of alzheimer's disease by regression and classification methods in a narrative language test in portuguese

S Aluísio, A Cunha, C Scarton - International Conference on …, 2016 - Springer
Automated discourse analysis aiming at the diagnosis of language impairing dementias
already exist for the English language, but no such work had been done for Portuguese …