Prediction of Loneliness in Older Adults Using Natural Language Processing: Exploring Sex Differences in Speech.

CONCLUSIONS: AI (e.g., NLP and machine learning approaches) can provide unique insights into how linguistic features of transcribed speech data may reflect loneliness. Eventually linguistic features could be used to assess loneliness of individuals, despite limitations of commercially developed natural language understanding programs. PMID: 33039266 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33039266?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - October 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Source Type: research