How word semantics and phonology affect handwriting of Alzheimer's patients: a machine learning based analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04762v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 13:35:06 GMT
• Title: How word semantics and phonology affect handwriting of Alzheimer's patients: a machine learning based analysis
• Authors: Nicole Dalia Cilia, Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi
• Abstract summary: We investigated how word semantics and phonology affect the handwriting of people affected by Alzheimer's disease. We used the data from six handwriting tasks, each requiring copying a word belonging to one of the following categories. The experimental results showed that the feature selection allowed us to derive a different set of highly distinctive features for each word type.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Using kinematic properties of handwriting to support the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease is a real challenge: non-invasive detection techniques combined with machine learning approaches promise big steps forward in this research field. In literature, the tasks proposed focused on different cognitive skills to elicitate handwriting movements. In particular, the meaning and phonology of words to copy can compromise writing fluency. In this paper, we investigated how word semantics and phonology affect the handwriting of people affected by Alzheimer's disease. To this aim, we used the data from six handwriting tasks, each requiring copying a word belonging to one of the following categories: regular (have a predictable phoneme-grapheme correspondence, e.g., cat), non-regular (have atypical phoneme-grapheme correspondence, e.g., laugh), and non-word (non-meaningful pronounceable letter strings that conform to phoneme-grapheme conversion rules). We analyzed the data using a machine learning approach by implementing four well-known and widely-used classifiers and feature selection. The experimental results showed that the feature selection allowed us to derive a different set of highly distinctive features for each word type. Furthermore, non-regular words needed, on average, more features but achieved excellent classification performance: the best result was obtained on a non-regular, reaching an accuracy close to 90%.

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