A DELAD/CLARIN workshop on collecting and sharing corpora for language and speech disorders was organized in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), which took place from 8 to 14 September in Poznan, Poland. The hybrid workshop was held on 11 and 12 September 2024, and the presentations have been recorded and published on the CLARIN YouTube channel.

Researchers specialising in speech disorders corpora were invited to present their work and discuss their data-sharing approaches, including any challenges they faced. The programme featured contributions from DELAD representatives, highlighting the sharing of corpora of speech disorders through DELAD and introducing recent updates, such as a new CLARIN Resource Family page dedicated to corpora involving communication disorders. Additionally, the programme addressed key topics like metadata, which is essential for ensuring dataset findability. It also included a panel discussion on the potential role of large language models (e.g. ChatGPT) in advancing research in this field.

The workshop was organised with financial support from CLARIN ERIC.

Workshop Programme

11 September 2024 

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• A CLARIN Resource Family for Corpora of Communication Disorders & Questionnaire about data sharing (Henk van den Heuvel & Satu Saalasti)
• Challenges in data sharing from a clinical perspective: a use case of voice data from patients with COPD (Loes van Bemmel)
• Using a portable system for multi-channel audio data acquisition and processing (Anita Lorenc et al.)
• Corpus-based research into intra- and interpersonal language variation in people with aphasia (Marina Ruiter et al.)
• Dysarthric speech database in Dutch and English for personalized dysarthric speech recognition (Zhang Yue et al.
• The Icelandic Language Biobank: Data Collection through a Clinical Analysis Platform (Iris Nowenstein et al.)
• STAR - A Speech Therapy Animation and Imaging Resource (Eleanor Lawson et al.)

12 September 2024

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• Sensitive Data in HPC – How secure can it be? (Matthiesen)
• The impact of AI on research and treatment of language & speech impairments
  30-minute Introduction (Zhengjun Yue) & 30-minute Panel discussion