Building a Longitudinal Corpus of Emails Composed by Older Adults

Previous research suggests that linguistic features associated with AD-pathology are present long before patients are diagnosed through standard practice 1±3. The current project is aimed at longitudinal corpus building and identifying semantic and syntactic measures to detect cognitive decline over time. Relative to healthy elders, people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)---a syndrome that frequently precedes Alzheimer's Disease (AD)---display impaired lexical access4 and favor simple