Friday, April 12, 2024 - 8th floor, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, McGill University,
527 Sherbrooke St W
Please feel free to contact info@crblm.ca with any questions
This day is intended to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing on the topic of speech samples. All are welcome. It will follow the
CRBLM Symposium 2024, held on April 11
**** Both the presentations and the panel discussion are open to the audience.
Program:
Morning sessions: 10-minute flash presentation on recent results and/or future projects in this field of speech analysis
8:45 Registration and breakfast
9:15–9:30 Welcome – Simona Brambati
9:30–9:45 Selcuk Guven: Analyzing speech and language disorders in children through computational approaches
9:45–10:00 Aparna Nadig: Linguistic input to children on the autism spectrum: Relationships between quantity and quality of input and child language development
10:00–10:15 Signy Sheldon: Using natural language processing approaches to understand age differences in narrative memory
10.15–10:30 Pascale Tremblay: Understanding the aging of spoken language production through speech analyses.
10.30–10:45 Simona Brambati: The analysis of connected speech in Alzheimer’s disease and its preclinical phase
10.45–11.15 Coffee Break
11.15–11:30 Maxime Montembeault: Connected speech markers for the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia variants
11.30–11:45 Denise Klein: Understanding resilience and disease by using language and the brain to predict individual outcomes
11.45–12:00 Mirco Ravanelli: Processing speech with SpeechBrain
12:00–12.15 Karine Marcotte: Reliability of discourse measures in people without brain damage and in people with aphasia
12.15–12.30 Lena Palaniyappan: Quebec Mental Health Speech Bank: A FRQS-Alliance initiative
12.30–2.00 pm Lunch (provided)
Afternoon session: Open discussion on possible common research interests, data and tool analysis sharing, future collaborations and networking.
2:00–4:00 pm Panel of discussants including Shari Baum, Simone Falk, Natalie Philips, Tina Simic, Shanna Kousaie, Xiaoqian Chai, Roozbeh Sattari, and Jon Sakata. Audience members are invited to participate in the discussion.
4:00–6:00 Refreshments, networking and demonstration of new CRBLM facilities
