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| Title | The Cambridge Cookie-Theft Corpus: A Corpus of Directed and Spontaneous Speech of Brain-Damaged Patients and Healthy Individuals |
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| Authors | Caroline Williams, Andrew Thwaites, Paula Buttery, Jeroen Geertzen, Billi Randall, Meredith Shafto, Barry Devereux and Lorraine Tyler |
| Abstract | Investigating differences in linguistic usage between individuals who havesuffered brain injury (hereafter patients) and those who haven’t can yield anumber of benefits. It provides a better understanding about the precise way inwhich impairments affect patients’ language, improves theories of how thebrain processes language, and offers heuristics for diagnosing certain types ofbrain damage based on patients’ speech. One method for investigating usagedifferences involves the analysis of spontaneous speech. In the work describedhere we construct a text corpus consisting of transcripts of individuals’speech produced during two tasks: the Boston-cookie-theft picture descriptiontask (Goodglass and Kaplan, 1983) and a spontaneous speech task, which elicitsa semi-prompted monologue, and/or free speech. Interviews with patients from19yrs to 89yrs were transcribed, as were interviews with a comparable number ofhealthy individuals (20yrs to 89yrs). Structural brain images are available forapproximately 30% of participants. This unique data source provides a richresource for future research in many areas of language impairment and has beenconstructed to facilitate analysis with natural language processing and corpuslinguistics techniques. |
| Language | Cognitive methods |
| Topics | Speech resource/database, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Cognitive methods |
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The Cambridge Cookie-Theft Corpus: A Corpus of Directed and Spontaneous Speech of Brain-Damaged Patients and Healthy Individuals |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{WILLIAMS10.327, author = {Caroline Williams, Andrew Thwaites, Paula Buttery, Jeroen Geertzen, Billi Randall, Meredith Shafto, Barry Devereux and Lorraine Tyler}, title = {The Cambridge Cookie-Theft Corpus: A Corpus of Directed and Spontaneous Speech of Brain-Damaged Patients and Healthy Individuals}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |