Language assessment has a crucial role in the clinical diagnosis of several
neurodegenerative diseases. The analysis of extended speech production is a precious …

Background: Language is a valuable source of clinical information in Alzheimer's disease,
as it declines concurrently with neurodegeneration. Consequently, speech and language …

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 …

Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially
independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles …

Background The aim of this study is to use classification methods to predict future onset of
Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal subjects through automated linguistic analysis …

Background To evaluate the interest of using automatic speech analyses for the assessment
of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that develops for years before
clinical manifestation, while mild cognitive impairment is clinically considered as a …

A review of the literature on quantifying vocabulary richness gives the sense of a quest for
the Holy Grail–the search for a single, all-embracing, but elusive measure of the quality of …

A reliable index of lexical diversity (LD) has remained stubbornly elusive for over 60 years.
Meanwhile, researchers in fields as varied as stylistics, neuropathology, language …

Background: The discovery of early, non-invasive biomarkers for the identification of
“preclinical” or “pre-symptomatic” Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is a key issue in …