• LabmeetingSP17w13

Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 13

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

• Congratulations to Zach for winning this year's best talk award at CMCL. Fantastic!

What we did over last week

Florian

• Research

  1. To-do

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  2. Planning

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

     • Started potential collaboration on to-omission after help with someone at Leipzig. If anyone is interested in joining let me know. I have all the data. I know the effect is there. (and large-ish). And it's an interesting effect where the inferrability of the present syntactic context given the right context predicts the omission of to.

  3. Analyses

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  4. Writing

     • Another few rounds (x 2) of writing on a short reply to Nieuwland et al. (2017) together with Shaorong.
     • Started editing Linda and Xin's paper on accent generalization
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  5. Feedback on

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• Logistics:
  1. Made Andres Buxo Lugo a revised offer to join both HLP and Kinder Lab.
• Service:

  1. Reviews:

     • one completed on Bayesian data analysis.

  2. Letters: 1 (1 new).

  3. Quals:

     • Back to reading Mr. Burchill's quals

  4. Thesis:

     • Finished reading Sebastian Sauppe's thesis. Wrote evaluation. Had a longer chat with him about some of his analyses. Zach, if you need a nice example of a more insightful time-series pupillometry analyses, I recommend Sebastian's paper coming out in Language.

Xin

Andrew

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

1. Spent two days troubleshooting the Kinder Lab eye-tracker. Turns out the Sophos anti-virus software was preventing the eye-tracking computer from sharing data with the display PC. Despite wanting to test this hypothesis on the first day, Chris was insistent that it shouldn't be a problem. It's a problem. Don't let this happen to you.
2. Graded for BCS 111.
3. Tried to organize a make-up NCUR for the BCS / NSC students because they missed the actual conference due to bad weather in Atlanta. It's looking like it'll be on Friday, probably starting at like 12:30, since undergrads have super conflicting schedules.
4. Started working on a collab project with Alyssa, looking at how people can use an interlocutor's un/certainty about the labels of things to extract their knowledge about a topic / modulate their referring expressions for shared vs. privileged label knowledge.
5. Met with Mike about my Brown talk / coordinated with their admin about my meeting schedule.

Zach

Linda

Wednesday

Shaorong