Multilingual Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: A Signal Processing Grand Challenge

Saturnino Luz, Fasih Haider, Davida Fromm, Ioulietta Lazarou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Brian MacWhinney

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Abstract / Description of output

This Signal Processing Grand Challenge (SPGC) targets a difficult automatic prediction problem of societal and medical relevance, namely, the detection of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD). Participants were invited to employ signal processing and machine learning methods to create predictive models based on spontaneous speech data. The Challenge has been designed to assess the extent to which predictive models built based on speech in one language (English) generalise to another language (Greek). To the best of our knowledge no work has investigated acoustic features of the speech signal in multilingual AD detection. Our baseline system used conventional machine learning algorithms with Active Data Representation of acoustic features, achieving accuracy of 73.91% on AD detection, and 4.95 root mean squared error on cognitive score prediction.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jan 2023

Publication series

NameThe 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023)
PublisherIEEE Press

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • eess.AS
  • cs.AI
  • cs.CL
  • cs.LG
  • 68T10 (Primary) 92C55 (Secondary)
  • J.3; I.2.6; I.5.1

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