Cross-Lingual Examination of Language Features and Cognitive Scores From Free Speech
Hali Lindsay, Giorgia Albertin, Louisa Schwed, Nicklas Linz, Johannes Tröger
Abstract
Speech analysis is gaining significance for monitoring neurodegenerative disorders, but with a view of application in clinical practice, solid evidence of the association of language features with cognitive scores is still needed. A cross-linguistic investigation has been pursued to examine whether language features show significance correlation with two cognitive scores, i.e. Mini-Mental State Examination and ki:e SB-C scores, on Alzheimer’s Disease patients. We explore 23 language features, representative of syntactic complexity and semantic richness, extracted on a dataset of free speech recordings of 138 participants distributed in four languages (Spanish, Catalan, German, Dutch). Data was analyzed using the speech library SIGMA; Pearson’s correlation was computed with Bonferroni correction, and a mixed effects linear regression analysis is done on the significant correlated results. MMSE and the SB-C are found to be correlated with no significant differences across languages. Three features were found to be significantly correlated with the SB-C scores. Among these, two features of lexical richness show consistent patterns across languages, while determiner rate showed language-specific patterns.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.rapid-1.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments @LREC-COLING 2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Kathleen C. Fraser, Charalambos K. Themistocleous, Kristina Lundholm Fors, Athanasios Tsanas, Fredrik Ohman
- Venues:
- RaPID | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 16–25
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.rapid-1.3
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Hali Lindsay, Giorgia Albertin, Louisa Schwed, Nicklas Linz, and Johannes Tröger. 2024. Cross-Lingual Examination of Language Features and Cognitive Scores From Free Speech. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments @LREC-COLING 2024, pages 16–25, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Cross-Lingual Examination of Language Features and Cognitive Scores From Free Speech (Lindsay et al., RaPID-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.rapid-1.3.pdf