To BERT or not to BERT: comparing speech and language-based approaches for Alzheimer's disease detection

A Balagopalan, B Eyre, F Rudzicz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Research related to automatically detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important, given the
high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional methods. Since AD significantly affects …

Comparing pre-trained and feature-based models for prediction of Alzheimer's disease based on speech

A Balagopalan, B Eyre, J Robin, F Rudzicz… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Research related to the automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is
important, given the high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional diagnostic …

Comparing acoustic-based approaches for Alzheimer's disease detection

A Balagopalan, J Novikova - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01555, 2021 - arxiv.org
Robust strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection are important, given the high
prevalence of AD. In this paper, we study the performance and generalizability of three …

Situated Natural Language Explanations

Z Zhu, H Jiang, J Yang, S Nag, C Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Natural language is among the most accessible tools for explaining decisions to humans,
and large pretrained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities to …

Zero-Shot Multi-Lingual Speaker Verification in Clinical Trials

A Akram, M Stanojevic, M Ehghaghi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Due to the substantial number of clinicians, patients, and data collection environments
involved in clinical trials, gathering data of superior quality poses a significant challenge. In …

Deconfounding age effects with fair representation learning when assessing dementia

Z Zhu, J Novikova, F Rudzicz - arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07217, 2018 - arxiv.org
One of the most prevalent symptoms among the elderly population, dementia, can be
detected by classifiers trained on linguistic features extracted from narrative transcripts …

A Computational Basis for Consensus-Aware Technologies

N Gürkan - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation studies the advancement of consensus-aware technologies in the context
of collective decision-making, focusing on the integration of these technologies into …

Impact of Environmental Noise on Alzheimer's Disease Detection from Speech: Should You Let a Baby Cry?

J Novikova - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.17110, 2022 - arxiv.org
Research related to automatically detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important, given the
high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional methods. Since AD significantly affects …

[PDF][PDF] On Speech Datasets in Machine Learning for Healthcare

J Novikova, A Balagopalan - 2020 - aphasia.talkbank.org
Multi-language speech datasets are scarce and often have small sample sizes in the
medical domain. We address this problem by employing the cross-linguistic transfer …

Variations on the Chebyshev-Lagrange Activation Function

Y Li, F Rudzicz, J Novikova - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10064, 2019 - arxiv.org
We seek to improve the data efficiency of neural networks and present novel
implementations of parameterized piece-wise polynomial activation functions. The …