Rehabilitation Dataset Directory: Repository Profile

Repository: AphasiaBank

Basic Information
Repository Full Name	AphasiaBank
Repository Acronym
General Theme or Special Population	Aphasia, Communication impairment, Neurological conditions, Stroke
Summary	AphasiaBank is a shared database of multimedia interactions for the study of communication in aphasia. Funded by the National Institute for Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). It provides researchers access to a large, shared database that can facilitate hypothesis testing and increase methodological replicability, precision, and transparency It is a database of interviews between aphasic participants and clinicians collected from multiple sites using a consistent protocol format. The video recordings are transcribed in the CHAT format (MacWhinney, 2000) and each utterance is linked to the corresponding segment in the video recordings. The linked transcripts are made available to AphasiaBank members for further analysis and playback over the web. The repository also provides access to related resources including computer programs, manuals, transcription training, research protocols, IRB guidelines, and ground rules. The access to transcripts and video materials is password-restricted to AphasiaBank members, but membership is automatically granted to researchers studying aphasia on request. Access to the related programs, manuals, and other resources are open and free to everyone.
Key Terms	Aphasia, Stroke, Communication, Language, Speech disorder, Multimedia, Video, Transcripts
Sponsoring Agency/Entity	National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Datasets Information
Data Type(s)	Clinical, Interviews
Continent(s)	North America
Countries	United States
Strengths and Limitations
Strengths	All data available to registered users Data follows tightly specified collection protocol Complete documentation is freely available Wide variety of data available including video, transcripts, and part of speech tags
Limitations	Basic, but functional, interface.
Data Repository Details
Primary Website	https://aphasia.talkbank.org/
Repository Tools	Browse-able database Protocols and IRB guidelines Manuals Links to linguistic analytic programs Links to related posters, presentations and publications Tools for morphological tagging available in several languages including: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
Data Submission Requirements	https://talkbank.org/share/contrib.html
Data Submission Process	Researchers interested in submitting data must join the consortium and are expected to contribute corpora constructed with TalkBank programs and tools. It is the obligation of TalkBank and TalkBank users to assure that these contributions are properly acknowledged and cited and that the data are correctly stored and distributed.
Data Access	https://talkbank.org/share/
Data Access Requirements	Access to the data in AphasiaBank is password protected and restricted to members of the AphasiaBank consortium group. Membership is automatically granted to all researchers studying aphasia on request.
Documentation & Resources
Technical	See main page for access to protocols, trainings, manuals, teaching videos and other materials: https://aphasia.talkbank.org/
Other Papers	AphasiaBank: Methods for Studying Discourse: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424615/ AphasiaBank as BigData https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5340876/ Related posters: https://aphasia.talkbank.org/posters/ Related publications: https://aphasia.talkbank.org/publications/