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Semin Speech Lang 2012; 33(03): 217-222
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1320041
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AphasiaBank: A Resource for Clinicians

Margaret M. Forbes
1   Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
,
Davida Fromm
1   Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
,
Brian MacWhinney
1   Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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31 July 2012 (online)

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Abstract

AphasiaBank is a shared, multimedia database containing videos and transcriptions of ~180 aphasic individuals and 140 nonaphasic controls performing a uniform set of discourse tasks. The language in the videos is transcribed in Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts (CHAT) format and coded for analysis with Computerized Language ANalysis (CLAN) programs, which can perform a wide variety of language analyses. The database and the CLAN programs are freely available to aphasia researchers and clinicians for educational, clinical, and scholarly uses. This article describes the database, suggests some ways in which clinicians and clinician researchers might find these materials useful, and introduces a new language analysis program, EVAL, designed to streamline the transcription and coding processes, while still producing an extensive and useful language profile.

Keywords

Aphasia - discourse - CHAT - CLAN - Computerized Language ANalysis
 

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