Connectionists: Reminder: ADReSS Challenge 2020 (INTERSPEECH)

[DE LA FUENTE GARCIA Sofia]

REMINDER:
ADReSS 2020: Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech.




Call for Participation:

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Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: The ADReSS

Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 (<tel:+442020>Sep 15-18<tel:+441518>, Shanghai, China)



Dementia is a category of neurodegenerative diseases that entails a

long-term and usually gradual decrease of cognitive functioning. While

a number of studies have investigated speech and language features for

the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and mild cognitive impairment, and

proposed various signal processing and machine learning methods for this

prediction task, the field still lacks balanced and standardised data

sets on which these different approaches can be systematically compared.



The ADReSS Challenge has made available a benchmark dataset of

spontaneous speech, which is acoustically pre-processed and balanced in

terms of age and gender, defining a shared task through which different

approaches to AD recognition in spontaneous speech can be compared.



We invite researchers working on speech and language analysis methods

for detection of AD and/or assessment of cognitive status to develop or

test their approaches to these tasks on the ADReSS Challenge dataset,

and to submit a paper for presentation at INTERSPEECH'2020<tel:+442020>, in the

Challenge's special session.



The relevant dates are:



* January 24, 2020<tel:+442020>: ADReSS training data available

* March 15, 2020<tel:+442020>: ADReSS test data made available

* March 17, 2020<tel:+442020>: Period for submission of results opens

* March 30, 2020<tel:+442020>: INTERSPEECH'2020<tel:+442020> paper submission deadline

* June 19, 2020<tel:+442020>: Paper acceptance/rejection notification

* September 15-18, 2020<tel:+441518,2020>: INTERSPEECH'2020<tel:+442020>, in Shanghai, China.



For further details please see https://edin.ac/375QRNI


Sofia de la Fuente
MRC PhD Scholar in Precision Medicine
Usher Institute
Edinburgh Medical School
University of Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/sofia-de-la-fuente

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