Brian MacWhinney
3 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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Learning the Curriculum with Bayesian Optimization for Task-Specific Word Representation Learning
2016
We use Bayesian optimization to learn curricula for word representation learning, optimizing performance on downstream tasks that depend on the learned representations as features. The curricula are modeled by a linear ranking function which is …
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Detecting cognitive decline using speech only: The ADReSSo Challenge
2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)
Building on the success of the ADReSS Challenge at Interspeech 2020, which attracted the participation of 34 teams from across the world, the ADReSSo Challenge targets three difficult automatic prediction problems of societal and medical …
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Evaluating Picture Description Speech for Dementia Detection using Image-text Alignment
2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)
Using picture description speech for dementia detection has been studied for 30 years. Despite the long history, previous models focus on identifying the differences in speech patterns between healthy subjects and patients with dementia but …