DementiaBank Mandarin Chou Corpus

Chia-Ju Chou
Department of Neurology
Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei
d40001004@gm.ym.edu.tw

Participants:

42 HC, 45 MCI

Type of Study:

Location:

Taipei

Media type:

audio

DOI:

doi:10.21415/X3Q2-GG37

Citation information

Chou, C.-J., Chang, C.-T., Chang, Y.-N., Lee, C.-Y., Chuang, Y.-F., Chiu, Y.-L., Liang, W.-L., Fan, Y.-M. & Liu, Y.-C. (2024). Screening for early Alzheimer’s disease: enhancing diagnosis with linguistic features and biomarkers. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 16:1451326. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1451326

Luz, S., Garcia, S. D. L. F., Haider, F., Fromm, D., MacWhinney, B., Lanzi, A., Chang, Y.-N., Chou, C.-J., & Liu, Y.-C. (2024). Connected Speech-Based Cognitive Assessment in Chinese and English (arXiv:2406.10272). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.10272

Lin, B.-X., Chou, C.-J., Chang, C.-T., Lee, C.-Y., Fang Chuang, Y., Chiu, Y.-L. and Liu, Y.-C. (2024). Long Pause Ratio in Speech Reflecting Dementia Severity and Hippocampal Atrophy in Early Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20: e086309. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.086309

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference. If none is given, please use the primary AphasiaBank reference:

MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011). AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology, 25,1286-1307.

Project Description

The file '*_Daddy.wav' describes a father taking care of his baby. The father was ironing clothes when the family dog noticed the little baby attempting to touch the plug. The dog quickly intervened while the father was not paying attention. Meanwhile, the cat was startled and knocked over the vase.

The file ' *_nightmarket.wav ' is about a traditional night market in Taiwan, featuring fish catching game, sausage selling, and the traditional dice game to win sausages.

And the file ' *_park.wav' is about the tell about the daily activities that take place in Taiwan's parks. Some people make tea and play chess in the parks, while others play seesaw, swing and badminton in the parks.

Materials for the TAUKADIAL competition are here.