update

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear CABank,

As you may have noticed, there is very little traffic on this list. In fact the last message was from nearly a year ago. Perhaps that is not altogether a bad thing. However, it is time now for an update on some of the resources in CABank and TalkBank more generally.
1. We now have seven funded TalkBank projects, each building corpora and tools for the analysis of spoken language interactions. Four are funded by NIH: CHILDES for child language, AphasiaBank for language in aphasia, PhonBank for phonological development, and FluencyBank for the clinical study of disfluencies. Two are funded by NSF: HomeBank for daylong audio recordings in the home and a grant for database creation for FluencyBank. In addition, we have NEH/DFG funding for web-based learning and study of Latin and Historical German. For access to each of these funded projects, as well as additional not-yet-funded databases, please go to the homepage at http://talkbank.org.
2. Although we do not currently have funding for construction of CABank for Conversation Analysis data, we are in fact continuing work in this area quite actively, much of it with the help of Johannes Wagner at Southern Denmark University (SDU) and his colleagues.
3. For people interested in linguistic corpus analysis, we have created an importer from TalkBank to ANNIS. The first import to this system is Roger Brown’s child language from Eve, but we will soon have many more corpora in the ANNIS system. The URL is http://gandalf.talkbank.org:8080/annis-gui-3.4.4/ If there are any TalkBank corpora that you would like to see available through ANNIS, please tell us.
4. We have developed and refined a tutorial for the use of CLAN for CA. You can download this tutorial from http://childes.talkbank.org/clan/tutorial.zip. Included in the tutorial is a description of a new method for adding captions from a CA/CHAT file to video.
5. Julia Ruser at SDU and Davida Fromm at CMU are creating YouTube-type tutorials for some of the more difficult aspects of CA coding in CLAN. An earlier set of these videos from Sarah Kress is available from http://talkbank.org/videos
6. We are also working on the implementation of a system for switching between alternative camera streams while working with a single transcript.
7. Finally, we should note that, because Apple dropped its support for QuickTime on Windows, we had to reprogram CLAN for Windows to work instead with Windows Media Player. That work is completed. If you use CLAN on Windows, you should download this new version.

In terms of new CA corpora, we have these materials:
1. Bergmann. Johannes Wagner and Julia Ruser have transcribed a set of 911 phone calls in German that were the focus of Jörg Bergmann’s dissertation.
2. Garfinkel. Maurice Neville and Johannes Wagner transcribed and linked four lectures given by Harold Garfinkel during seminars in Boston in 1977.
3. Jefferson-Poetics. Maurice Neville transcribed and linked a videotaped lecture on the poetics of conversation from Gail Jefferson in 1977.
4. GCSAusE. Michael Haugh contributed naturalistic conversations from Australians which we have linked and formatted in CHAT/CA.
5. SPIRE. Jakob Burr and colleagues contributed several videotaped interactions of plans for a meeting on user-oriented design.
6. Bradford. Angela Bradford-Wainright contributed recording from African American adults in the District of Columbia.
7. Trove. We are using a new method, called Trove, for eliciting naturalistic materials from aphasia therapy group sessions and normal control groups. The method involves describing and relating to a series of objects of personal and historical importance presented to the group in a “treasure trove”. We now have five recordings of Trove sessions.
8. Other. We have moved the three corpora that were previously in the “Meeting” folder into CABank. They include a video of a dissertation defense from Grimshaw, Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court of the US, and four-part conversations from the ISL project.

We have personpower resources that could be used to add additional materials, such as the audio BNC or to improve the quality of transcription and linkage in current corpora. We would gladly receive contributions of new materials, as well as older materials that really should be included in the database before they totally disappear.

Best regards,

- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU

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[Michael Forrester]

Dear Brian

Many thanks for the update - it is great to see so many developing projects - and in particular the CLAN/CA developments.

All the best

Mike

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[Cornelia Heyde]

Dear Brian MacWhinney,

A couple of years ago, I have used AphasiaBank for my Master thesis. I have since changed the area slightly (former CA to articulatory phonetics today) and with it also the population that I am looking at. I am currently working on stuttering, in particular the fluent speech of people who stutter.

In your last email you mention that there is a corpus on disfluency. I wasn't aware of it and wanted to ask whether I could perhaps get access to the data?

Kind regards,

Cornelia

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Cornelia J Heyde

PhD Student and Research Assistant

Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language (CASL) Research Centre

Speech and Hearing Sciences
Queen Margaret University
Musselburgh
EH21 6UUUK

 

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Cornelia,

 

FluencyBank is about one month old, if that.  Its creation is being funded partly by a five-year grant from NIDCD and partly by a three-year grant from NSF.  NIDCD is focusing on the clinical applications and the creation of a “gold standard corpus”.  The NSF portion focuses more on the development of the database and computational analysis.  It is too early in the project for us to offer you anything very serious in terms of well-structured corpora for comparison, but we expect to have several large corpora available within the first two years of the project.  Even the scant data we have now are password protected and you can read more initial info about the project at http://talkbank.org/FLuencyBank.

 

Best regards,

 

-- Brian

[Cajsa Ottesjö]

Hi Brian

Would it be of interest if I add some of my recordings from late 90-s? Family interaction, audio. Som of it is my own CA-transcriptions. 

I have to ask all of the participants before, ofcorse. Three of them have already agreed.

Cajsa

3. For people interested in linguistic corpus analysis, we have created an importer from TalkBank to ANNIS.  The first import to this system is Roger Brown’s child language from Eve, but we will soon have many more corpora in the ANNIS system.  The URL ishttp://gandalf.talkbank.org:8080/annis-gui-3.4.4/ If there are any TalkBank corpora that you would like to see available through ANNIS, please tell us.

Cajsa Ottesjö
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[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Cajsa,

 

Yes, if there is also audio, and if the transcriptions can be reformatted to CHAT this would be great. We would try the reformatting here probably, unless we run into problems.   We would need permission, of course and some basic documentation.  I assume this is normal Swedish family interaction.

 

--Brian