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    Multi-class machine learning detection of Edema, Vocal Paralysis and Vocal Nodules through voice

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    This paper aims to differentiate causes of dysphonia, namely Reinke's Edema, Vocal Cord Paralysis, and Vocal Nodules, also including healthy subjects. A proprietary dataset of 245 subjects underwent acoustic feature extraction and selection, and four classifiers were trained for multi-class classification. Loudness/Energy-related features were among the most effective, which is in line with the fact that the three diseases all cause different impairments in terms of voice volume. Cepstrum is also confirmed as an effective domain. The four classifiers obtained comparable performances, with Random Forest having the highest accuracy at 78.4% and Naïve Bayes offering the best compromise in terms of recall. Healthy subjects always lead to a higher recall, which is in line with the fact that identifying dysphonia is an easier task than differentiating among its causes

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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