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title = "Exploring the Use of Cohesive Devices in Dementia within an Elderly {I}talian Semi-spontaneous Speech Corpus",
author = "Albertin, Giorgia and
Martinelli, Elena",
editor = "Dell'Orletta, Felice and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Montemagni, Simonetta and
Sprugnoli, Rachele",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)",
month = dec,
year = "2024",
address = "Pisa, Italy",
publisher = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.clicit-1.3/",
pages = "13--19",
ISBN = "979-12-210-7060-6",
abstract = "The study of language disruption in dementia aimed at individuating which features correlate with the progression of cognitive impairment is a growing area in computational linguistic research. Still, it needs a further development in analyzing some discourse phenomena that also undergo deterioration, and can help expand our understanding of dementia-related speech and refine automatic tools. This paper explores the discourse property of cohesion by investigating three types of cohesive devices: reference, lexical iteration, and connectives. Ten features related to these categories have been defined and automatically extracted from an Italian corpus of semi-spontaneous speech collected from dementia patients and healthy controls. Some of the designed features have proven significant for the binary classification of the two groups and further quantitative analysis highlight interesting differences in the use of cohesive devices, that seem to be associated with cognitive decline."
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[Exploring the Use of Cohesive Devices in Dementia within an Elderly Italian Semi-spontaneous Speech Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2024.clicit-1.3/) (Albertin & Martinelli, CLiC-it 2024)
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