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

Vaden Masrani, Gabriel Murray, Thalia Field, Giuseppe Carenini, 2017. BioNLP Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 232-237

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.

We have shown that it is possible to distinguish bloggers with dementia from those without, on a novel corpus of blog data.

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