Automatic estimation of verbal fluency index in people with Motor Neuron Disease using ASR alignment and pause modelling

arXiv:2609.38203 · cs.CL, cs.AI, eess.AS · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, eess.AS

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo

Terminology

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — 10× in this paper
Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Automatic Speech Recognition — 5× in this paper
Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verbal Fluency Index — 5× in this paper
Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Motor Neuron Disease — 4× in this paper
Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
AUC — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Normalised Root Mean Squared Error — 1× in this paper
Random Forest — 1× in this paper
Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Support Vector Regression — 1× in this paper
Support Vector Regression (SVR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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