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Program and accepted papers

Workshop Schedule - Room 7 - Total number of seats: TBA

Important Note: This is a Very Preliminary Schedule


14:00 – 16:00 | Session A

Chair: Dimitrios Kokkinakis

  • 14:00–14:05 Welcome and Introduction by Workshop Chair
  • 14:05–14:50 Invited Keynote Talk B [35-ca 5-10 min Q&A]: Brian MacWhinney, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. TalkBank resources for studying functional communication in language disorders (online)
  • 14:55–15:15 Oral presentation [15–ca 4 min Q&A] – A1: Iris Nowenstein, Naizeth Núñez Macías, Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson, Stefán Ólafsson, Bryndís Bergþórsdóttir, Iðunn Kristínardóttir and Hinrik Hafsteinsson: The Icelandic Language Biobank: Data Collection through a Clinical Analysis Platform
  • 15:15–15:35 Oral presentation [15–ca 4 min Q&A] – A2: Damar Hoogland, Boshko Koloski, Jaya Caporusso, Tine Kolenik, Senja Pollak, Christina Manouilidou and Matthew Purver: Multilingual Cognitive Impairment Detection in the Era of Foundation Models
  • 15:35–16:00 Presentation: MENTAL.ai: Professor Gaël Dias, Université de Caen Normandie, France

16:00 – 16:30 [17:00] | Afternoon Coffee Break with the Poster Session
(Note: the posters will remain up until the end of the workshop)

16:30 – 18:00 | Session B

Chair: Charalambos Themistocleous

  • 16:00–17:00 Poster Session - starts during the coffee break and end at 17:00
    • P1: Fabio Tamburini: On Automatic Detection of Cognitive Decline
    • P2: Anja Ryser, Yingqiang Gao and Sarah Ebling: Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech
    • P3: Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Herbert Lange and Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez: Disfluencies and ASR Performance on Swedish Spontaneous Speech from the ‘Trip to Stockholm' Discourse Narrative Task
    • P4: Muhammad Rizwan and Jure Demšar: Resource-Efficient LLMs for Depression Symptoms Screening: Performance and Limitations in Zero Shot Setting
    • P5: Jinyuan Xu, Tian Lan, Xintao Yu, Xue He, Hezhi Zhang, Ying Wang, Mathieu Valette, Pierre Magistry and Lei Li: CNSocialDepress: A Chinese Social Media Dataset for Depression Risk Detection and Structured Analysis
    • P6: Vivian Stamou, George Mikros, George Markopoulos and Spyridoula Varlokosta: Depression detection in Modern Greek
    • P7: Charalambos Themistocleous and Brielle C. Stark: ALBA: An Automated Framework for Benchmarking Clinical Language Biomarkers against Standardized Corpora
    • P8: Avi Treistman, Tehilla David, Sivan Levi and Dror Mughaz: Profiling Psychopathic Behavior Using Machine Learning
  • 17:00–17:40 Invited Keynote Talk B [35-ca 5-10 min Q&A]: Sunny X. Tang, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research / Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA. Speech and Language Markers for Clinical Applications in Psychiatric Disorders (preliminary) (online)
  • 17:40–17:55 Oral presentation [10–ca 3 min Q&A] – B1: Vera Czehmann, Christine Hovhannisyan, Lena Elisabeth Hoffmann, Paula Busch, Ibrahim Baroud, Sebastian Möller, Roland Roller, Hannes Gieseler and Lisa Raithel: Developing Annotation Guidelines for CSAM Prevention Interventions: Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors Grounded in Research and Clinical Practice
  • 17:55–18:10 Oral presentation [10–ca 3 min Q&A] – B2: Federica Beccaria, Marie Kolenberg, Pierre Labendzki, Inge Zink and Mikhail Kissine: Automatic Detection of Direct and Self-Repetitions in Naturalistic Speech Recordings of French- and Dutch-Speaking Autistic Children
  • 18:10–18:15 Conclusions and Wrap up