The Slovak Autistic and Non-Autistic Child Speech Corpus:Task-Oriented Child-Adult Interactions

Joanna Kruyt, Róbert Sabo, Katarína Polónyiová, Daniela Ostatníková, Štefan Beňuš


Abstract
This paper presents the Slovak Autistic and Non-Autistic Child Speech Corpus, which consists of audio-recordings and transcripts of collaborative, task-oriented conversations between children (with or without autism spectrum disorder, ASD) and a non-autistic adult experimenter. The task used to elicit this corpus was the Maps task. This corpus was primarily recorded to investigate lexical alignment, but can also be used to study other conversation coordination strategies and behaviours. Scores on various standardised psychometric tests, such as those measuring IQ, executive functioning, and theory of mind, are included for each participant. In total, the corpus contains over 15 hours of speech. This relatively large database contains a non-Germanic language and can be shared with any qualified researcher, making it a valuable resource for replication of existing findings regarding communication and ASD as well as future research into communication between individuals with and without ASD.
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2024.lrec-main.1399
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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Joanna Kruyt, Róbert Sabo, Katarína Polónyiová, Daniela Ostatníková, and Štefan Beňuš. 2024. The Slovak Autistic and Non-Autistic Child Speech Corpus:Task-Oriented Child-Adult Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 16094–16099, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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