Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 12

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

• Frank's word learning paper is out! Congrats, Frank! http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/OPMI_a_00006

• Horton & Gerrig (2017) Revisiting the Memory-Based Processing Approach to Common Ground.

What we did over last week

Florian

Research

1. To-do

   • ...

2. Planning

   • A few back and forths with Volya Kapatsinki and Masha on a potential project on the role of feedback in morphological learning.

3. Analyses

   • Prelim analyses of Grace's data.
   • Re-analysis of Duane Watson's replication failure of Fine et al (2013, Exp 2). I find pretty clear signatures of the original effects.

4. Writing

   • Another few rounds (x 4) of writing on a short reply to Nieuwland et al. (2017) together with Shaorong.
   • A complete edit through Guillermo's study on path- and manner-priming in native and L2 speakers of Spanish.
   • A complete edit through the result section of Esteban's causal inference during articulation paper.

5. Feedback on

   • CUNY dry runs x 3 (v2-3)
   • CUNY poster (Shaorong x 5, Wednesday x 3)
   • CUNY slides (Wednesday x 2; Linda x 2)
   • CMCL slides (Zach x 1)

• Logistics:
  1. Made Andres Buxo Lugo an offer to join both HLP and Kinder Lab.
• Service:
  1. Stats advice to Nate Delaney Bush.

  2. Reviews: rejected (2). accepted (1).

  3. Letters: 2 (2 new).

  4. Quals:

     • ... Reading Mr. Burchill's quals

  5. Thesis:

     • Continued reading Sebastian Sauppe's thesis. (Ch 2)

     • Feedback on introduction and general discussion parts of Guillermo Montero Melis's thesis.

Xin

1. Ran fill-ups for BCS 206 and analyzed new data
2. Met Linda a couple of times to give feedback on CUNY talk slides
3. Prepared and presented at Probability Theory Class
4. Calculated metrics and ran analyses on biphone frequency and other lexical measures for BCSstudy
5. Read on fMRI papers on brain response to speech intelligibility

Andrew

1. Cleaned up and merged data on all of our HITs, anonymized them, and uploaded to Box for Florian
2. Learned some dplyr in the process of doing the previous
3. Started playing with the data a bit and trying to make some graphs. If anyone has new MTurk data to put on slate from 2017 experiments, that would be nice.
4. Made a backup the Poser files from both Poser computers onto slate so Masha can get work started in Arizona
5. A little more work on helping Scott’s lab get set up for MTurk. Set up nginx + Passenger, set up SSL certificates, got basic app working.
6. Did a bunch of overdue software updates on slate, www, and the NAS

7. Thanks to the NAS update, it now supports BtrFS, so I can do backups (to USB/eSATA external disk) with snapshotting. Hope to talk Florian into letting me redo the main storage volume Ext4 -> BtrFS this summer so we can have on-disk snapshots, transparent disk compression, and self healing w/ checksums. The backup of our ~2TB of data onto a BtrFS external drive looks like it will end up ~800GB.

8. Started the boto -> boto3 conversion of SQS related code in CrowdExp

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

1. Edited and prepped for my poster at CUNY, as well as Wes' poster.
2. Drove to CUNY (honestly, up there with one of the more taxing things I did this week).
3. Drafted / submitted a GSA travel award app for CUNY.

4. Started working on a data report on my project with Sarah & Chigusa, re: appropriately updating based on the expected utility of the evidence.

5. Graded exams for BCS 111.
6. Worked on Kid Eyetracking experiment (probably).
7. Met with Mike, Alyssa, and Jeff about an uncertainty / production task.
8. Wrote an abstract (probably) for my Brown talk.

Zach

Linda

1. Work on CUNY talk. Met with Xin a few times, and Florian a few times.
2. Classwork for Duje's class and for grant writing. Reading for Raj's class.
3. Did my taxes; paid all sorts of other taxes.
4. Worked on Bradlow and Bent writeup.

Wednesday

1. CUNY prep all day every day (4 practice talks, 2 practice posters)
2. Analyses of new corpus data:
   • new corpus of definiteness ordering (thanks to Madeline's lovely annotation work) lines up really well with Bresnan's! Time to collect many, many more verbs
   • between-speaker DO/PO differences? In Bresnan's Switchboard annotations, there looks to be a little bit. cool!
3. Reading for class
4. Gave a presentation on the auditory system for Duje's class
5. Prepared/taught stats lab
6. Trying to find time to grade homeworks...
7. Updated my website to be slightly less hideous/more presentable. Added poster pdf, talk slides to website

Shaorong

1. CUNY, went to a lot of talks and presented a poster;
2. Working on presentation at lab meeting;
3. Read and write for courses.