AphasiaBank Protocol Greek PLan-V

Spyridoula Stamouli Athena Research Center Institute for Language and Speech Processing pstam@athenarc.gr

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In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one relevant corpus reference.

Chatzoudis, G., Plitsis, M., Stamouli, S., Dimou, A.-L., Katsamanis, A., Katsouros, V. (2022). Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Aphasia Detection using Automatic Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH 2022. arXiv:2204.00448.

General Overview

The PLan-V Aphasia Corpus contains spoken discourse data collected from Greek-speaking People with Aphasia (PWA). The corpus is the outcome of the research activities of the project “PLan-V: A Speech and Language Therapy Platform with Virtual Agent”, which aims to develop a technologically assisted, speech and language intervention platform for people with chronic neurogenic communication disorders, such as aphasia. One of the services offered to clinicians via the PLan-V platform is a machine-learning system that automatically assesses aphasia severity through patients’ speech samples.

The corpus contains evaluation data of the machine-learning system for aphasia severity classification. Protocol data were collected with the use of a web-based application, which integrates 4 tasks of the AphasiaBank standard discourse protocol:

• Stroke story
• Refused umbrella
• Cat rescue
• Cinderella

Funding information

This research has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH-CREATE-INNOVATE (project code: T2EDK-02159, project title “Plan-V: A Speech and Language Therapy Platform with Virtual Agent”. PI: Arhonto Terzi).

Ethics statement

Data collection procedures were approved by Bioethics Committee, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. The participants provided their written informed consent. Data do not contain participants’ names or any other identifying information.

Research team

	Ioanna Vavouraki Institute for Speech and Language Processing / Athena Research Center, Greece vavourakii@hotmail.com		Manos Plitsis Institute for Language and Speech Processing / Athena Research Center, Greece manos.plitsis@athenarc.gr
	Georgia Tzeli Animus Rehabilitation and Recovery Center SA, Greece logo@animus-sa.gr		Irene Koukourava Animus Rehabilitation and Recovery Center SA, Greece ikou@animus-sa.gr
	Anthi Zafeiri Department of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Patras, Greece a.zafeiri@gmail.com		Michaela Nerantzini Department of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Patras, Greece nmixaela@gmail.com
	Spyridoula Varlokosta Department of Linguistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece svarlokosta@phil.uoa.gr		Arhonto Terzi Department of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Patras, Greece aterzi@upatras.gr