• LabmeetingAU16w11

Lab Meeting, Autumn 2016, Week 11

• For this week's meeting, if you haven't, read Fine et al. (2013)

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

1. R Markdown => Jekyll Markdown => awesomely updated website?!? This is super, super cool, and incredibly easy to use if you're already running a Jekyll-based Github page. I will soon be able to instantly put up R Markdown blog posts on my website, thanks to this awesome project. -ZJB

What we did over last week

Florian

• Noticed that wiki updating has fallen into disarray over the last two weeks.

• Edited abstract for NCUR by Emily, Crystal, and Lauren.

• Feedback on project updates for Wednesday, Zach, Linda.

• Reviewed one paper for Cognition.

• Recommendations: about 5 for three different people, all requiring updates.

Xin

1. Revised js script for priming study
2. Read a lot on perceptual learning (vision/neuroimaging)
3. Met Leslie for Praat tutorial, will meet Henry tomorrow
4. Reviewed feedback for sleep study, outlined revision plan

Andrew

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

1. Depending on when we're counting the start of this week: submitted 2 abstracts to the CSLI workshop.
2. Emailed a bunch of folks about this scholarship app I'm working on.
3. Wrote a short paragraph to send to Greg re: this scholarship.
4. Worked on my proposal for this scholarship.
5. Went home to get the retinal tear in my left eye looked at by a (free) ophthalmologist, and got laser surgery (treatment?) on Sunday. So... now the hole is fixed?
6. Met with Dan Russel and chatted with him about what role using an emoji in a hashtag might be playing in how a japanese pub is branding itself (it provides extra information in an efficient bit of info: mainly that they serve beer as opposed to being a sake/whiskey/whatever bar), also, how a lot of different things might influence the expectations a user might have (e.g., when you mention seeing a bear on your way into work in Victoria, BC you likely mean a very different kind of bear than someone who mentions a bear in Churchill, MB - hey, his example, not mine!). I also managed to glean the information that it seems like google is still mainly just hiring linguists for kind of boring translation jobs (like, how do figure out the most common use of X morphemes to be more natural), rather than on the research front (still preferring to hire NLP / HCI engineers).

Zach

1. Gave 2 review sessions for BCS 152
2. Gave a Praat/Spectrogram tutorial to Henry and Evan
3. Did a lot of figuring out of the pupillometry projec
4. Figured out a lot of website stuff

Linda

1. Gave review session for BCS 111. Answered student emails.
2. Helped group run some models for NRT class.
3. Analysis on similarity project. Putting together more detailed writeup on this.
4. Read for quals.
5. Some figure creation for pen in mouth writeup.

Wednesday

1. More simulations of Klinton's data. Close to running the replication study!

2. More simulations of NRT project data -- getting ready to run more conditions that should actually work

3. Gave review session for BCS 111; answered lots of student emails
4. Lots of reading for Cognition
5. Voted!!!!!

Shaorong

1. Revised the ERP proposal and sent it out.
2. Starting putting together a norming study for the Chinese radical study.
3. Preparing for this week's lab meeting