Lesley Jessiman


2018

pdf
Language-Based Automatic Assessment of Cognitive and Communicative Functions Related to Parkinson’s Disease
Lesley Jessiman | Gabriel Murray | McKenzie Braley
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language Cognition and Computational Models

We explore the use of natural language processing and machine learning for detecting evidence of Parkinson’s disease from transcribed speech of subjects who are describing everyday tasks. Experiments reveal the difficulty of treating this as a binary classification task, and a multi-class approach yields superior results. We also show that these models can be used to predict cognitive abilities across all subjects.