4 papers
SoftStep: Learning Sparse Similarity Powers Deep Neighbor-Based Regression
Aviad Susman, Baihan Lin, Mayte Suárez-Fariñas +1
Neighbor-based methods are a natural alternative to linear prediction for tabular data when relationships between inputs and targets exhibit complexity such as nonlinearity, period…
Word Clouds as Common Voices: LLM-Assisted Visualization of Participant-Weighted Themes in Qualitative Interviews
Joseph T. Colonel, Baihan Lin
Word clouds are a common way to summarize qualitative interviews, yet traditional frequency-based methods often fail in conversational contexts: they surface filler words, ignore p…
CAtCh: Cognitive Assessment through Cookie Thief
Joseph T Colonel, Carolyn Hagler, Guiselle Wismer +5
Several machine learning algorithms have been developed for the prediction of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) from spontaneous speech. However, none of these algori…
Predicting Cognitive Decline: A Multimodal AI Approach to Dementia Screening from Speech
Lei Chi, Arav Sharma, Ari Gebhardt +1
Recent progress has been made in detecting early stage dementia entirely through recordings of patient speech. Multimodal speech analysis methods were applied to the PROCESS challe…