Forgotten Words: Benchmarking NeoBERT for Dementia Detection in Low-Resource Conversational Filipino and English Speech

Rez Samantha Z. Floresca, Edric Castel C. Hao, Hannah Grachiella Buñales +3

Dementia detection from spontaneous speech offers a scalable approach to cognitive screening, yet NLP systems remain predominantly English-centric. This limitation is especially ac…