Medical Linguistics

[stoutfellow]

Here's an interesting article on the use of computational linguistics to predict the likelihood of dementia - decades in advance! More study is needed, but this is definitely intriguing.

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Very interesting! Including, especially, the point that that particular measure of idea density is the one that worked the best.

I wonder how many they tried. You run into that problem with trying too many different analyses -- you increase the probability that one of them will work by chance. Or something like that.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

This was good news to me, since I have always written in circles and at length (G). Guess I don't need to worry about *complete* dementia, then!