Why Alzheimer's Speech Screening Fails to Generalize: Bridging the Deployment Gap via Cross-Corpus Evidence Anchoring

arXiv:2609.31293 · eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.SD · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.SD

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Comments: Accepted to NCMMSC 2026

Code: https://github.com/THUsatlab/AD2021

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AUC — 42× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 6× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Lexical Diversity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Domain Shift — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Area Under the ROC Curve — 1× in this paper
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Feature Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Multimodal approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pseudo-labeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Exploiting Pre-Trained ASR Models for Alzheimer's Disease Recognition Through Spontaneous Speech

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