Date: October 15th and 16th, 2024
Location: Auditorium 2001 FALE/UFMG

Speakers: Tommaso Raso (FALE/UFMG), João Salgado (ICB/UFMG), Maurício Barcellos (ECI/UFMG), Heliana Mello (FALE/UFMG), Bruno Rocha (FALE/UFMG) and Natália Mota (UFRJ).

On the first day, it was explained how spontaneous speech is organized into prosodic-informational patterns of an actional nature and how these patterns are composed of gestures. From this, it was shown how corpus linguistics, in particular through multimodal corpora, can provide sources of evidence and patterns characterizing different areas of specialization, as well as pathologies. On the second day, the relationship between schizophrenia and language was deepened and the C-ORAL-ESQ corpus was presented.

The seminar also addressed the factors that can influence the speech of patients with schizophrenia. From this, computational solutions were presented for precise quantification of psychopathological changes manifested in speech. Finally, the C-ORAL-ESQ corpus was presented, focusing both on the compilation methodology and on the perspectives that open up for research into the speech of schizophrenics.

About the C-ORAL-ESQ project

The C-ORAL –ESQ corpus project is dedicated to studying the speech of individuals with schizophrenia. The main objective of the project is to investigate cognitive aspects of individuals with schizophrenia, based on the compilation of a corpus of spontaneous speech and its study, which focuses mainly on the analysis of the structuring of information and its prosodic correlates. The project is linked to C-ORAL-BRASIL, a project dedicated to the study of spontaneous speech for the compilation of oral corpora of Brazilian Portuguese and other languages. C-ORAL-BRASIL is based at the Laboratory for Empirical and Experimental Language Studies (LEEL) at the Faculty of Arts at UFMG.