AphasiaBank as BigData

MacWhinney, Brian; Fromm, Davida

doi:10.1055/s-0036-1571357

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“…Data for this study were drawn from the Mandarin protocol of the AphasiaBank database located in the TalkBank System (Chen et al., 2018; Deng et al., 2021). AphasiaBank is a shared database that offers researchers a large corpus with a definitive goal to improve the treatment of aphasia by comparing discourse natures from patients with aphasia and individuals without aphasia (Fromm et al., 2020; MacWhinney & Fromm, 2016; MacWhinney et al., 2011; Sharma et al., 2019). The database emphasizes the collection of data based on a specified elicitation protocol that requires the investigator to follow a script for asking questions and eliciting narratives, which offers multimedia information including transcripts of discourse by specific tasks (Fromm et al., 2020; MacWhinney, 2019; MacWhinney & Fromm, 2016).…”

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Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank

Jiang

Liao

Liu

2023

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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BackgroundPatients with anomic aphasia experience difficulties in narrative processing. General discourse measures are time consuming and require necessary skills. Core lexicon analysis has been proposed as an effort‐saving approach but has not been developed in Mandarin discourse.AimsThis exploratory study was aimed (1) to apply core lexicon analysis in Mandarin patients with anomic aphasia at the discourse level and (2) to verify the problems with core words among people with anomic aphasia.Methods & ProcedureThe core nouns and verbs were extracted from narrative language samples from 88 healthy participants. The production of core words for 12 anomic aphasia and 12 age‐ and education‐matched controls were then calculated and compared. The correlation between the percentages and the Aphasia Quotients of the revised Western Aphasia Battery was analyzed as well.Outcomes & ResultsThe core nouns and verbs were successfully extracted. Patients with anomic aphasia produced fewer core words than healthy people, and the percentages differed significantly in different tasks as well as word classes. There was no correlation between the core lexicon use and the severity of aphasia in patients with anomic aphasia.Conclusions & ImplicationsCore lexicon analysis may potentially serve as a clinician‐friendly manner of quantifying core words produced at the discourse level in Mandarin patients with anomic aphasia.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDSWhat is already known on the subject Discourse analyses in aphasia assessment and treatment have increasingly garnered attention. Core lexicon analysis based on English AphasiaBank has been reported in recent years. It is correlated with microlinguistic and macrolinguistic measures in aphasia narratives. Nevertheless, the application based on Mandarin AphasiaBank is still under development in healthy individuals and patients with anomic aphasia.What this paper adds to existing knowledge A Mandarin core lexicon set was developed for different tasks. The feasibility of core lexicon analysis to evaluate the corpus of patients with anomic aphasia was preliminarily discussed and the speech performance of patients and healthy people was then compared to provide a reference for the evaluation and treatment of clinical aphasia corpus.What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? The purpose of this exploratory study was to consider the potential use of core lexicon analysis to evaluate core word production in narrative discourse. Moreover, normative and aphasia data were provided for comparison to develop clinical use for Mandarin patients with anomic aphasia.

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“…Corpus collection referred to international AphasiaBank standards (MacWhinney & Fromm, 2016) and took Chinese cultural traditions into account. The method and compilation techniques have been adopted by AphasiaBank and reported (Chen et al., 2018; Deng et al., 2021).…”

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Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank

Jiang

Liao

Liu

2023

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…All transcripts are linked to the video at the utterance level and can be played back using the TalkBank browser over the web. Analysis of these materials has generated 256 publications across the areas of discourse, grammar, lexicon, gesture, fluency, syndrome classification, social factors, and treatment effects, as summarized and reviewed in MacWhinney and Fromm (2016). AphasiaBank videos are used as teaching materials, as well, in universities and clinics globally.…”

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Understanding spoken language through TalkBank

MacWhinney

2018

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Ongoing advances in computer technology have opened up a deluge of new datasets for understanding human behavior (Goldstone & Lupyan, 2016). Many of these datasets provide information on the use of written language. However, data on naturally occurring spoken-language conversations are much more difficult to obtain. A major exception to this is the TalkBank system, which provides online multimedia data for 14 types of spoken-language data: language in aphasia, child language, stuttering, child phonology, autism spectrum disorder, bilingualism, Conversation Analysis, classroom discourse, dementia, right hemisphere damage, Danish conversation, second language learning, traumatic brain injury, and daylong recordings in the home. The present report reviews these resources and describes the ways they are being used to further our understanding of human language and communication.

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“…cmu.edu) and TalkBank (http://talkbank.org) databases, for automatic annotation of POS. This procedure generally followed those listed in the English AphasiaBank project (MacWhinney & Fromm, 2016). According to MacWhinney (2012), the MOR grammars were built for Indo-European languages, such as English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and German, as well as for three Asian languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese.…”

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“…The rich linguistic and prosodic data as well as videos with information on nonverbal behaviors extracted from Cantonese AphasiaBank have been proven to be extremely valuable for conducting linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistics research in Chinese. MacWhinney and Fromm (2016) in a recent review article summarized how the AphasiaBank in English facilitated 45 research investigations in various areas of aphasic productions: (1) lexical, grammatical, and discourse output; (2) fluency and syndrome classification of aphasia; and (3) gesture employment. In addition, effects of social factors of aphasia, such as PWA's educational background, age, gender, and occupational status, as well as intervention effects on spoken language have been explored.…”

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Cantonese AphasiaBank: An annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by healthy and language-impaired native Cantonese speakers

Kong

Law

2018

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This article reports the construction of a multimodal annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by native healthy speakers of Cantonese and individuals with language impairment: the Cantonese AphasiaBank. This corpus was established as a foundation for aphasiologists and clinicians to use in designing and conducting research investigations into theoretical and clinical issues related to acquired language disorders in Chinese. Details in terms of the purpose, structure, and levels of annotation of the database (containing part-of-speech-annotated orthographic transcripts with Romanization and the corresponding videos) are described. The discussion presents the challenges of building a spoken database of a language that is not linguistically well-researched and that does not have a standardized written form for many of its lexical items, as well as presenting how these issues were addressed. Most importantly, the article highlights the potential of Cantonese AphasiaBank as a powerful research tool for linguists and psycholinguists.

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AphasiaBank as BigData

Cited by 30 publications

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Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank

Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank

Understanding spoken language through TalkBank

Cantonese AphasiaBank: An annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by healthy and language-impaired native Cantonese speakers

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