Publications

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Journal articles

• Fraser, K.C., Lundholm Fors, K., and Kokkinakis, D. (2018). Multilingual word embeddings for the assessment of narrative speech in mild cognitive impairment. Computer Speech and Language 53, pp.121--139. Link


• Marcotte, K., Graham, N., Fraser, K.C., Meltzer, J.A., Tang-Wai, D.F., Chow, T.W., Freedman, M., Leonard, C., Black, S.E., Rochon, E (2017). White matter disruption and connected speech in non-fluent and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra 7, pp. 52-73. Link


• Fraser, K.C., Meltzer, J.A., and Rudzicz, F. (2015). Linguistic features identify Alzheimer's disease in narrative speech. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 49, pp. 407–422. Baycrest Annual Research in Print Award. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Meltzer, J.A., Graham, N.L., Leonard, C., Hirst, G., Black, S.E., and Rochon, E.(2014). Automated classification of primary progressive aphasia subtypes from narrative speech transcripts. Cortex , pp. 43-60. Link

Peer-reviewed conference and workshop papers

• Fraser, K.C., Lundholm Fors, K., Kokkinakis, D., Eckerström, M., Themistokleous, C., and Kokkinakis, D. (2018). Improving the sensitivity and specificity of MCI screening with linguistic information. Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Resources and processing of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric impairments (RaPID-2). pp. 19--26. Miyazaki, Japan. PDF


• Kokkinakis, D., Lundholm Fors, K., Fraser, K.C., and Nordlund, A. (2018). A Swedish Cookie-Theft Corpus. Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Miyazaki, Japan. PDF


• Lundholm Fors, K., Fraser, K.C., and Kokkinakis, D. (2018). Automated Syntactic Analysis of Language Abilities in Persons with Mild and Subjective Cognitive Impairment. Proceedings of the 29th Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden. Link


• Fraser, K.C., Lundholm Fors, K., Kokkinakis, D., and Nordlund, A. (2017). An analysis of eye-movements during reading for the detection of mild cognitive impairment. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 1027-1037. PDF


• Zhou, L., Fraser, K.C., Rudzicz, F. (2016). Speech recognition in Alzheimer's disease and in its assessment. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 9-12 September, San Francisco, U.S.A. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Rudzicz, F., and Hirst, G. (2016). Detecting late-life depression in Alzheimer’s disease through analysis of speech and language. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPysch) , 16 June, San Diego, U.S.A. PDF


• Fraser, K.C. and Hirst, G. (2016). Detecting semantic changes in Alzheimer's disease with vector space models. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Resources and processing of linguistic and extra-linguistic data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric impairments (RaPID) , 23 May, Portoroz, Slovenia. PDF


• Yancheva, M., Fraser, K., Rudzicz, F. (2015). Using linguistic features longitudinally to predict clinical scores for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT2015), Dresden, Germany. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Ben-David, N., Hirst, G., Graham, N.L., and Rochon, E. (2015). Sentence segmentation of aphasic speech. 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -- Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2015), Denver, Colorado. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Hirst, G., Meltzer, J.A., Mack, J.E., and Thompson, C.K. (2014). Using statistical parsing to detect agrammatic aphasia. Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), Baltimore, Maryland. Featured Presentation. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Hirst, G., Graham, N.L., Meltzer, J.A., Black, S.E., and Rochon, E. (2014). Comparison of different feature sets for identification of variants in progressive aphasia. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych), Baltimore, Maryland. PDF


• Fraser, K., Arnold D.V., and Dellaire, G. (2014). Projected Barzilai-Borwein method with infeasible iterates for nonnegative least-squares image deblurring. Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2014), 7--9 May, Montreal, Canada. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Rudzicz, F., and Rochon, E. (2013).Using text and acoustic features to diagnose progressive aphasia and its subtypes. Proceedings of Interspeech 2013 , 25--29 August, Lyon France. ISCA Best Student Paper Award. PDF


• Fraser, K.C., Rudzicz, F., Graham, N., and Rochon, E. (2013). Automatic speech recognition in the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT2013), 21--22 August, Grenoble France. PDF

Peer-reviewed abstracts

• Lundholm Fors, K., Fraser, K.C., Themistocleous, C., and Kokkinakis, D. (2018). Prosodic Features As Potential Markers of Linguistic and Cognitive Deterioration in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Proceedings of the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC). Chicago, USA.


• Lundholm Fors, K., Fraser, K.C., and Kokkinakis, D. (2018). Eye-voice span in adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy controls. Proceedings of the 10th European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy (CPLOL). Cascais, Portugal.


• Konig A., Rudzicz F., Fraser K.C., Kaufman L., Alexandersson J., Linz N., Troger J., Wolters M., Bremond F., and Robert P. (2017). Early detection of cognitive disorders such as dementia on the basis of speech analysis - a cross-linguistic comparison of speech features. Proceedings of the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).


• Korcovelos E.A., Fraser K.C., Meltzer J., Hirst, G., and Rudzicz F. (2017) Studying neurodegeneration with automated linguistic analysis of speech data. Proceedings of the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).


• Fraser, K.C., van Schijndel, M., Graham, N., Rochon, E., and Black, S. (2016). Can measures of processing complexity predict progressive aphasia from speech? Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. PDF


• van Schijndel, M. and Fraser, K.C. (2016). Screening for Alzheimer's with psycholinguistics. Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. PDF

Theses

• Fraser, K. C. Automatic text and speech processing for the detection of dementia. PhD Thesis (University of Toronto). PDF


• Fraser, K. C. Projected Barzilai-Borwein Method with Infeasible Iterates for Nonnegative Image Deconvolution. Master's Thesis (Dalhousie University). Link


• Fraser, K. C. Correlating local structure and local dynamics in a glass-forming liquid. Honour's Thesis (St. Francis Xavier University).



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