DementiaBank Greek Dem@Care Corpus

Ioulietta Lazarou Brian, Health and Virtual Reality Group Information and Technology Institute iouliettalaz@iti.gr

Yiannis Kompatsiaris Brian, Health and Virtual Reality Group Information and Technology Institute ikom@iti.gr

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Karakostas, A., Briassouli, A., Avgerinakis, K., Kompatsiaris, I., & Tsolaki, M. (2016). The Dem@Care Experiments and Datasets: A Technical Report. arXiv.Org. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01142v1

Luz, S., Haider, F., Fromm, D., Lazarou, I., Kompatsiaris, I. and MacWhinney, B. (2024). An Overview of the ADReSS-M Signal Processing Grand Challenge on Multilingual Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition Through Spontaneous Speech. IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 5, 738-749. doi: 10.1109/OJSP.2024.3378595.

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference. If none is given, please use the primary AphasiaBank reference:

MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011). AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology, 25,1286-1307.

Project Description

For the pilot, the three tasks are cookie theft, sentence readig and description of a house picture. Further information is available at https://demcare.eu/datasets/

For the long form, the assessor shows to the participant one picture representing daily activity and then asks the participants to give a verbal description of the picture in a few sentences. The assessor asks if the participant likes doing this activity and why. The picture represents a couple of older people walking on the mountains.