2025

Domain adaptation and QA pooling for aphasia modeling

Reichel, U., Gonzalez Machorro, M., Ehlen, L. M., Hecker, P., Peitz, D., Werner, C., Burkhardt, F., Kohlschein, C., Eyben, F., and Schuller, B.

In this study, we examine the impact of domain adaptation and question-answer pooling on text-based aphasia prediction with standard and medically specialised BERT models for a German corpus. Modelling tasks comprise aphasia type classification as well as multitask regression of communicative, semantic, and syntactic skills. We found that domain adaptation before finetuning as well as question-answer pooling increased performance for the standard but not for the specialised models on all classification and regression tasks.

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