PsychosisBank Contributing Data

We expect that researchers will 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.

To contribute a new data set to the Discourse PsychosisBank:

  1. For PsychosisBank contributions, please write an email message to discourseinpsychosis@gmail.com, Brian MacWhinney (macw@cmu.edu) and Lena Palaniyappan (lena.palaniyappan@mcgill.ca) describing your contribution.
  2. Make sure that your contribution is in accord with your IRB Regulations and your desired Contribution Options .
  3. Please complete this contribution form , scan it, and include the scan in the upload.
  4. Both audio files and transcriptions are welcomed. If you have transcripts, please be aware that TalkBank uses CHAT files, which must pass CLAN's check program. However, it is also possible to contribute transcripts with a different format. Please specify the format of your transcriptions in your contribution description and we will work to find the best solution to upload your data.
  5. If you happen to have transcripts in CHAT format, please note that TalkBank uses a strict system for matching transcripts to media. This requires that each transcript align with only one media file and that the names of the transcript file and the media file be the same (ignoring the extensions). For example, the file 020456.cha must have a matching 020456.mp4 (or .wav or .mp3) media file. In addition, the @Media line in the *.cha file should use the name of the media which matches the name of the transcript. In general, please try to use short file names to make processing easier. Information already provided in folder names and the @ID lines does not need to be duplicated in file names.
  6. Documentation should include information for a web page, such as this one .
  7. Once you have your contribution materials organized, send an email to Brian MacWhinney at macw@cmu.edu and he will send you a link for transferring files using WeTransfer.com
  8. We are very thankful for the kindness and collegiality you are showing in contributing your hard-won data.

Guidelines for corpus documentation are given in section 4.5 of the CHAT manual .