Per-Aetiology Contrastive Severity Embeddings with Phonological Pseudo-Labelling for Multilingual Dysarthric Speech

📅 2026-09-18
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研究通过针对不同病因(脑瘫、帕金森病、肌萎缩侧索硬化)的对比嵌入模型及语音学伪标签方法,提高了多语言构音障碍严重程度评估系统的性能。
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Most multilingual dysarthria-severity systems either train on a single aetiology-language pair or pool heterogeneous aetiologies into one label space. We test that pooling assumption with four matched HuBERT-base contrastive embedding models under a shared backbone, training recipe, corpus registry and held-out evaluation: one mixed-aetiology baseline and three aetiology-specific models for cerebral palsy (CP), Parkinson's disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Training combines clinically labelled speech with ordinal pseudo-labels from a training-free phonological profiling method [1], [2]. On speaker-disjoint, leakage-filtered held-out subsets, the per-aetiology models outperform the mixed baseline across all three target aetiologies: CP (macro F1 0.829 vs 0.676, +22.6 % relative), PD (0.715 vs 0.511, +40.0 %) and ALS (0.788 vs 0.596, +32.3 %). On CP, adding 144 SAP and 44 CDSD pseudo-labelled speakers lifts macro F1 from 0.786 to 0.829 over a clinical-only CP model (+4.3 percentage points). Training data span three to seven languages per aetiology. We position this as a controlled comparison of label-space design choices and discuss pseudo-label calibration, split hygiene, and confidence-thresholded deployment as important limitations for future work.
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multilingual dysarthria-severity
aetiology
label space
contrastive embedding
phonological profiling
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contrastive embeddings
phonological pseudo-labelling
per-aetiology models
multilingual dysarthria
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