Syntactic complexity measures for detecting mild cognitive impairment

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP 2007: Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Roark, Brian ^a   Mitchell, Margaret ^a   Hollingshead, Kristy ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATIC PARSING; COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED; DATA SET; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS; PARSE TREES; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84969865579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1572392.1572394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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