3 papers
eess.AS2026
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…
eess.AS2025
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…
eess.AS2024
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…