Chunrong Wang’s scientific contributions

... Among interactional features, lapses are positively correlated with AD, indicating that patients find trouble continuing topics, resulting in delays with interviewers initiating a new topic. Attributable silence (AS) duration is also positively correlated with AD, showing that AD patients exhibit more silences in response to questions; this fits with the findings of CA studies in the literature that this form of silence serves as a dispreferred response in communication [22,32]. Turn lengths seem to negatively correlate with AD: AD patients produce less number of words in their turns with longer turn duration (5.91 vs 4.01 seconds), and consequently, produce more silences within the turns as compared to Non-AD. ...

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Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Using Interactional and Acoustic Features from Spontaneous Speech