Talk2Me: Automated linguistic data collection for personal assessment

PLoS One. 2019 Mar 27;14(3):e0212342. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212342. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Language is one the earliest capacities affected by cognitive change. To monitor that change longitudinally, we have developed a web portal for remote linguistic data acquisition, called Talk2Me, consisting of a variety of tasks. In order to facilitate research in different aspects of language, we provide baselines including the relations between different scoring functions within and across tasks. These data can be used to augment studies that require a normative model; for example, we provide baseline classification results in identifying dementia. These data are released publicly along with a comprehensive open-source package for extracting approximately two thousand lexico-syntactic, acoustic, and semantic features. This package can be applied arbitrarily to studies that include linguistic data. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive publicly available software for extracting linguistic features. The software includes scoring functions for different tasks.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Data Collection / methods*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Linguistics / instrumentation
  • Linguistics / methods*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Patient Portals
  • Semantics
  • Software
  • Young Adult

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