Pauses for Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Pauses, disfluencies and language problems in Alzheimer’s disease can be naturally modeled by fine-tuning Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT and ERNIE.Using this method with pause-encoded transcripts, we achieved 89.6% accuracy on the test set of the ADReSS (Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech) Ch