Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies
the JSI team has considerable expertise in applying NLP to detecting and tracking cognitive impairment, in NLP for less-resourced languages, and cross-lingual NLP
About
The overall contribution of the project will be to discover how models for cognitive impairment detection can be built that transfer well across languages, while giving interpretable output that could be used by clinicians.n
Work packages
Data collection, pre-processing and analysis
Survey of existing methods and datasets, Slovene dataset annotation and pre-processing, Statistical analysis and cross-linguistic comparison, Synthetic data augmentation
Monolingual detection of cognitive impairment
Text-based experiments, Audio-based experiments, Multimodal experiments
Cross-lingual detection of cognitive impairment
Text-based experiments, Audio-based experiments, Multimodal experiments, Project management
Management, ethics & dissemination.
Project management, Ethics and data management, Dissemination and communication
Our team
prof. Zvezdan Pirtošek
Medical Advisor
Professor of Neurology and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Head of Department of Neurology at the University Medical Centre
Ljubljana and Head of Chair of Neurology at the Medical Faculty of University of Ljubljana.
Dr. Ana M. Sobočan
Ethics Advisor
Vice Dean at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work, co-founder and president of the Committee for Ethics in Research for the field of social care and social work and is a member of the University of Ljubljana Committee for Research with Human Subjects.