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Chapter and Conference Paper
More than Words: Cross-Linguistic Exploration of Parkinson’s Disease Identification from Speech
This study investigates the effect of listeners’ first language and expertise on their perception of speech produced by people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We compared assessment scores and identification ac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Dysarthric Prosody Impacts Naïve Listeners’ Recognition
The class of speech disorders known as dysarthria arise from disturbances in muscular control over the speech mechanism caused by damage of the central or peripheral nervous system
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-strategy Differential Evolution
We propose the Multi-strategy Differential Evolution (MsDE) algorithm to construct and maintain a self-adaptive ensemble of search strategies while solving an optimization problem. The ensemble of strategies i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vowel Articulation in Parkinson’s Disease With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study
This pilot study investigates the added acoustic and perceptual effect of cognitive impairment on vowel articulation precision in individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We compared PD patients with and wit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Presenting the ECO: Evolutionary Computation Ontology
A well-established notion in Evolutionary Computation (EC) is the importance of the balance between exploration and exploitation. Data structures (e.g. for solution encoding), evolutionary operators, selection...
