| AphasiaBank | 
| English PWA Protocol Data |
This page provides access to the individual segments of the overall English AphasiaBank PWA protocol data collected at various sites across the United States and Canada. Margie Forbes and Audrey Holland did much of the data collection in collaboration with local sites. In other cases, the sites administered the protocol and test and then contributed the materials to the shared database. Many of the sessions were transcribed by Davida Fromm, Lillian Jarold, and Andrew Yankes at CMU; some were transcribed by the individual contributors and their teams. There is currently a total of 476 participants (some with multiple administrations). All corpora have transcripts linked to video.
| Corpus | N | Contributors | Site |
| ACWT | 12 | Katy Binek and Kathryn Shelley | Aphasia Center of West Texas |
| Adler | 25 | Gretchen Szabo | Adler Aphasia Center |
| APROCSA | 6 | Stephen Wilson | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Baycrest | 14 | Jed Meltzer | Baycrest |
| BU | 12 | Elizabeth Hoover | Boston University |
| CC-Stark | 6 | Brielle Stark | file for CC |
| CMU | 3 | Brian MacWhinney | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Elman | 15 | Roberta Elman | Aphasia Center of California |
| Fridriksson | 13 | Julius Fridriksson | University of South Carolina |
| Fridriksson-2 | 68 | Julius Fridriksson | University of South Carolina |
| Garrett | 2 | Kathryn Garrett | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Kansas | 23 | Susan Jackson | University of Kansas |
| Kempler | 4 | Daniel Kempler | Emerson College |
| Kurland | 29 | Jacquie Kurland | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| MSU | 8 | Mary Boyle | Montclair State University |
| NEURAL | 25 | Brielle Stark | NEURAL Research Lab, Indiana University |
| NEURAL-2 | in progress | Brielle Stark | NEURAL Research Lab, Indiana University |
| Richardson | 20 | Jessica Richardson | University of New Mexico |
| SCALE | 38 | Denise McCall | Snyder Center for Aphasia Life Enhancement |
| STAR | 1 | Melinda Corwin | Stroke Aphasia Recovery Program |
| TAP | 19 | Maura Silverman | Triangle Aphasia Project |
| TCU | 7 | Maria Muñoz | Texas Christian University |
| TCU | 2 | Maria Muñoz | TCU - bilinguals |
| Thompson | 14 | Cynthia Thompson | Northwestern University |
| Tucson | 22 | Fabiane Hirsch Kruse | University of Arizona |
| UCL | 4 | Michael Dean | University College London |
| UMD | 20 | Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah | University of Maryland |
| UNH | 11 | Amy Ramage | University of New Hampshire |
| Whiteside | 20 | Janet Whiteside | University of Central Florida |
| Williamson | 24 | Darlene Williamson | Stroke Comeback Center |
| Wozniak | 7 | Linda Wozniak | InteRACT |
| Wright | 7 | Heather Wright | Arizona State University |
Citation information
MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011). AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology, 25,1286-1307.
In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one relevant corpus reference.
General Overview
The AphasiaBank English Discourse Protocol includes the following discourse tasks:
- Free Speech Samples -- How's Your Speech, Stroke Story and Coping, Important Event
- CHAT gem markers -- Speech, Stroke, Important_Event
- Picture Descriptions -- Broken Window, Refused Umbrella, Cat Rescue
- CHAT gem markers -- Window, Umbrella, Cat
- Story Narrative -- Cinderella
- CHAT gem markers -- Cinderella_Intro (task presentation), Cinderella (storytelling response)
- Procedural Discourse -- Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
- CHAT gem markers -- Sandwich, Sandwich_Picture (if task was done with stimulus picture), Sandwich_Intro (incomplete, unsuccessful response to task prior to presentation of picture)
The CHAT transcript ID header tier for the participants with aphasia includes the information listed below. For participants without aphasia, the WAB fields are empty.
- Generic -- @ID: language|corpus|PAR|age|sex|WABtype||Participant||WAB-AQ|
- Example -- @ID: eng|ACWT|PAR|69;11.|female|Broca||Participant||63.9|
The following tests are administered in conjunction with the discourse protocol:
- Western Aphasia Battery-Revised -- Aphasia Quotient subtests
- Boston Naming Test, Second Edition, Short Form
- CHAT gem marker -- BNT
- Northwestern Verb Naming test
- CHAT gem marker -- VNT
- AphasiaBank Repetition test
- Complex Ideational Material subtest of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
- Sentence Comprehension Assessment derived from the Philadelphia Comprehension Battery
Materials in the AphasiaBank Protocol are available from the here . Web-based administration can be done from here (investigator instructions) and here (picture stimuli).
Links to spreadsheets with participants' demographic data are available here; links to test results spreadhsheets are available here.
Participants are identified by a corpus name, a number, and a letter (indicating the order of repeated administrations of the protocol). For example, MSU01a is participant #01 from Montclair State University seen for the first time, and MSU01b is the same person seen for a second time. If the protocol (or parts of the protocol) is repeated within 6 months of the previous administration, test data (e.g., WAB-R scores) from the previous administration are used. The demographic spreadsheet provides dates of testing.
In accordance with TalkBank rules, use of data from any of these AphasiaBank corpora must be accompanied by this reference:
MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011). AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology, 25,1286-1307.
Additional citations for individual corpora are available as necessary on the corpus subpages above.