Title
Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks.
Abstract
Semantic Verbal Fluency tests have been used in the detection of certain clinical conditions, like Dementia. In particular, given a sequence of semantically related words, a large number of switches from one semantic class to another has been linked to clinical conditions. In this work, we investigate three similarity measures for automatically identify switches in semantic chains: semantic similarity from a manually constructed resource, and word association strength and semantic relatedness, both calculated from corpora. This information is used for building classifiers to distinguish healthy controls from clinical cases with early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease and MildCognitive Deficits. The overall results indicate that for clinical conditions the classifiers that use these similarity measures outperform those that use a gold standard taxonomy.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
NAACL-HLT
Semantic similarity,Verbal fluency test,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Word Association,Dementia
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felipe Paula100.34
Rodrigo Wilkens257.61
Marco Idiart38411.23
Aline Villavicencio4203.41