Role-specific Language Models for Processing Recorded Neuropsychological Exams (N18-2)
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| Challenge: | Neuropsychological examinations are an important screening tool for the presence of cognitive conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal-cord injuries. |
| Approach: | They propose to use audio recordings to determine the cognitive health of 92 subjects from audio that was diarized using an automatic speech recognition system trained on TED talks and on structured language used by testers and subjects. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can determine the cognitive health of 92 subjects from audio that was diarized using an automatic speech recognition system trained on TED talks and on the structured language used by testers and subjects. |
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