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

The language changes that occur over the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can impact
communication abilities and have profound functional consequences. Picture description …

Disfluencies and language problems in Alzheimer's Disease can be naturally modeled by
fine-tuning Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT and ERNIE …

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 …

In discourse, older adults tend to be more verbose and more disfluent than young adults,
especially when the task is difficult and when it places few constraints on the content of the …

Background: Neurodegenerative syndromes are associated with varying degrees of
language impairment. Connected speech analysis provides the most realistic measure of …

This paper discusses impairments of high‐level, complex language production in
Parkinson′ s disease (PD), defined as sentence and discourse production, and situates …

Background: Connected speech (CS) deterioration appears early in the progression to
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). As such, CS assessment …

This article reviews recent evidence for the relationship between extralinguistic cognitive
and language abilities in dementia. A survey of data from investigations of three dementia …

In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language
production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify …