5 papers
Mitigating Scoring Errors and Compensating for Nonverbal Subtests in Speech-Based Dementia Assessment
Franziska Braun, Christopher Witzl, Andreas Erzigkeit +4
Early detection of cognitive impairment relies on neuropsychological tests to minimize subjectivity by assessing multiple cognitive domains. Speech-based evaluation can support dia…
The PARLO Dementia Corpus: A German Multi-Center Resource for Alzheimer's Disease
Franziska Braun, Christopher Witzl, Florian Hönig +3
Early and accessible detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major challenge, as current diagnostic methods often rely on costly and invasive biomarkers. Speech and languag…
Pitfalls and Limits in Automatic Dementia Assessment
Franziska Braun, Christopher Witzl, Andreas Erzigkeit +4
Current work on speech-based dementia assessment focuses on either feature extraction to predict assessment scales, or on the automation of existing test procedures. Most research…
Infusing Acoustic Pause Context into Text-Based Dementia Assessment
Franziska Braun, Sebastian P. Bayerl, Florian Hönig +4
Speech pauses, alongside content and structure, offer a valuable and non-invasive biomarker for detecting dementia. This work investigates the use of pause-enriched transcripts in…
A Survey of Music Generation in the Context of Interaction
Ismael Agchar, Ilja Baumann, Franziska Braun +4
In recent years, machine learning, and in particular generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) and attention-based neural networks (transformers), have been successfully used t…