Detecting Dementia through Retrospective Analysis of Routine Blog Posts by Bloggers with Dementia

Vaden Masrani, Gabriel Murray, Thalia Field, Giuseppe Carenini


Abstract
We investigate if writers with dementia can be automatically distinguished from those without by analyzing linguistic markers in written text, in the form of blog posts. We have built a corpus of several thousand blog posts, some by people with dementia and others by people with loved ones with dementia. We use this dataset to train and test several machine learning methods, and achieve prediction performance at a level far above the baseline.
Anthology ID:
W17-2329
Volume:
BioNLP 2017
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada,
Editors:
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
Venue:
BioNLP
SIG:
SIGBIOMED
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
232–237
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-2329
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-2329
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Cite (ACL):
Vaden Masrani, Gabriel Murray, Thalia Field, and Giuseppe Carenini. 2017. Detecting Dementia through Retrospective Analysis of Routine Blog Posts by Bloggers with Dementia. In BioNLP 2017, pages 232–237, Vancouver, Canada,. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Detecting Dementia through Retrospective Analysis of Routine Blog Posts by Bloggers with Dementia (Masrani et al., BioNLP 2017)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-2329.pdf
Code
 vadmas/blog_corpus