Lab Meeting, Spring 2015, Week 17

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

What we did over last week

Florian

Chigusa

Andrew

1. Rewrote my code for processing HIT status notifications from Amazon SQS. The old version would take several seconds even if the queue was empty. The new version seems to take no more than a second even if there are dozens of messages, and milliseconds if it's empty.

2. Started captioning Florian's Rutgers talk on the research page while I babysat Scott's MTurk experiments. The audio is pretty bad and if we want people to watch, it would help if you could make out more of what's being said. I've made it about 25 minutes in. In case anyone cares, I'm using AegisSub, which I'm liking so far.

3. Hunted down video stimuli from our Yucatec experiments, converted it from AVI to MP4 (AVI = 3.7GB, MP4 = 230MB), and uploaded it to Box for the person who asked for them at Cornell.
4. Rewrote my SPR conversion script before converting Scott's results (120 workers)
5. With Olga, attempted (with no luck) to find our letter of approval for our Mexico field work, since suddenly the RSRB wants it 7 years later.
6. Wrote the most evil Python function I've ever done. You'd think a Perl programmer wrote it:

def parse_region_file(region_file):
    with open(region_file, 'r') as rfile:
        splitreg = [x.strip().split('|') for x in rfile.readlines()]
        regdict = {int(reg[0]): reg[1].split(';') if reg[1] != '' else ['NA:0,0', ] for reg in splitreg}
        return {k: dict([(x[0], map(int, x[1].split(','))) for x in [y.split(':') for y in v]]) for k, v in regdict.items()}

Olga

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

1. Practiced talk on SET for ETAP3 in Kur-Tan lab
2. Edited outline of dissertation to reflect feedback obtained from SET presentation in Kur-Tan
3. Met with Anne Pier to discuss the appropriate formatting of the edf output file for the new Gotta eye-tracking study
4. Updated last of the files needed by my RA to finish the SET speech act annotations
5. Outlined a plan of action for consolidating the annotations for the SET corpus.

Dan

Amanda

1. Ran 16 participants in the naming task, plotted the eyetracking data in excel, and was a little uncertain of what to make of it. Meeting with APS and MKT this week (maybe) to discuss it.

2. Made edits to, and submitted the final draft of my CogSci paper.

3. Found out I was awarded a travel grant to present the paper in (2). Wahoo!
4. Graded final assignments for Lang Dev.
5. Started prepping my Kur-Tan lab talk, as a first pass on my MXPrag talk.
6. Updated my website a little bit.

Zach

Linda

Maryam