Pauses for Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

Pauses, disfluencies and language problems in Alzheimer’s disease can be naturally modeled by fine-tuning Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT and ERNIE. Using this method with pause-encoded transcripts, we achieved 89.6% accuracy on the test set of the ADReSS (Alzheimer’s Deme...

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Main Authors: Jiahong Yuan, Xingyu Cai, Yuchen Bian, Zheng Ye, Kenneth Church
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Computer Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2020.624488/full