Using text and acoustic features to diagnose progressive aphasia and its subtypes

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2177-2181

  Fraser, Kathleen C ^a   Rudzicz, Frank ^a,b   Rochon, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; INDEX TERMS; NONFLUENT; RANDOM FORESTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84905281203     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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