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ADDReS 2020: Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech. <br>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">Call for Participation:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: The ADReSS</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>Challenge at INTERSPEECH<span> </span><a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020 (</a>Sep<span> </span><a href="tel:+441518" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">15-18</a>,
Shanghai, China)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">Dementia is a category of neurodegenerative diseases that entails a</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">long-term and usually gradual decrease of cognitive functioning. While</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">a number of studies have investigated speech and language features for</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and mild cognitive impairment, and</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">proposed various signal processing and machine learning methods for this</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">prediction task, the field still lacks balanced and standardised data</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">sets on which these different approaches can be systematically compared.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">The ADReSS Challenge has made available a benchmark dataset of</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">spontaneous speech, which is acoustically pre-processed and balanced in</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">terms of age and gender, defining a shared task through which different</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">approaches to AD recognition in spontaneous speech can be compared.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">We invite researchers working on speech and language analysis methods</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">for detection of AD and/or assessment of cognitive status to develop or</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">test their approaches to these tasks on the ADReSS Challenge dataset,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>and to submit a paper for presentation at INTERSPEECH'<a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>, in the</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">Challenge's special session.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">The relevant dates are:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>* January 24,<span> </span><a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>: ADReSS training data available</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>* March 15,<span> </span><a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>: ADReSS test data made available</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>* March 17,<span> </span><a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>: Period for submission of results opens</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>* March 30,<span> </span><a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>: INTERSPEECH'<a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a><span> </span>paper
submission deadline</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>* June 19,<span> </span><a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>: Paper acceptance/rejection notification</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span>* September<span> </span><a href="tel:+441518,2020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">15-18, 2020</a>: INTERSPEECH'<a href="tel:+442020" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline">2020</a>,
in Shanghai, China.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black">For further details please see<span> </span><a href="https://edin.ac/375QRNI" target="_blank" title="https://edin.ac/375QRNI" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193)">https://edin.ac/375QRNI</span></a></span></p>
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