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About SASTA

SASTA is a tool for the analysis of spontaneous language transcripts, to aid clinical linguists and research into language development and language disorders. SASTA analyzes a transcript grammatically using Alpino, an automatic utterance parser for Dutch, and can recognize a significant number of forms of deviant language use and analyze them correctly, following multiple assessment methods available for Dutch (TARSP, STAP and ASTA).

Read more about SASTA on the project website.

Pipeline

In order to move toward implementation of SASTA in clinical practice and beyond, improving and extending the application is ongoing. In collaboration with the Koninklijke Auris Groep and commercial partner ITSLanguage, a pipeline is actively being developed, consisting of the following tools:

• ITS Transcription (ITSLanguage): TT supports the linguist in transcribing an uploaded audio or video fragment containing spontaneous language in CHAT format using automatic speech recognition.
• SASTA (Utrecht University): SASTA analyzes a transcript grammatically and can recognize a significant number of forms of deviant language use and analyze them correctly, following multiple assessment methods available for Dutch (TARSP, STAP and ASTA).
• Stamper (Anouk Scheffer, PhD candidate at Utrecht University/Auris): Stamper analyzes SASTA's output, by grouping various structures and making easy-to-use overviews.