3 papers
cs.CL2025
Mitigating Confounding in Speech-Based Dementia Detection through Weight Masking
Zhecheng Sheng, Xiruo Ding, Brian Hur +3
Deep transformer models have been used to detect linguistic anomalies in patient transcripts for early Alzheimer's disease (AD) screening. While pre-trained neural language models…
cs.CL2025
"Is There Anything Else?'': Examining Administrator Influence on Linguistic Features from the Cookie Theft Picture Description Cognitive Test
Changye Li, Zhecheng Sheng, Trevor Cohen +1
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that negatively impacts patients' cognitive ability. Previous studies have demonstrated that changes in…
cs.CL2025
Bigger But Not Better: Small Neural Language Models Outperform Large Language Models in Detection of Thought Disorder
Changye Li, Weizhe Xu, Serguei Pakhomov +3
Disorganized thinking is a key diagnostic indicator of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Recently, clinical estimates of the severity of disorganized thinking have been shown to co…