Automatic detection and rating of dementia of alzheimer type through lexical analysis of spontaneous speech

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1569-1574

  Thomas, Calvin ^a   Kešelj, Vlado ^a   Cercone, Nick ^a   Rockwood, Kenneth ^a   Asp, Elissa ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnostics; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSTICS; OBJECTIVE METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 27744457288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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