• LabmeetingSP16w5

Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 5

1. We'll go through posters by Kodi/Linda and Guillermo/Esteban and listen to Zach give a very nice polished dry run.
2. Many of you haven't responded about lab retreat. Please let me know. It would be really nice but it's, of course, optional. To give us a fair chance though at a retreat, I'd like to schedule it relatively soon.

3. My next paper project is to write an Annual Review of Linguistics article. Ideas welcome. These articles are meant to be review articles, i.e., on work we've mostly already done. I was asked to write about "Applications of Bayesian Probability in the Language Sciences", which is extremely broad and can probably be changed quite a bit.

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

Bonawitz, E. B. & Shafto, P. (2016). Computational models of development, Social influences. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 7, 95-100.

Florian

1. Wrote draft for short commentary on 'What the heck is salience' for special issue in Frontiers.

2. Scripted sth to calculate the change in expected probability correct recognitions depending on whether one tracks talker-specific or marginal vowel distributions.

3. Recommendations: 3

4. Some CLS business in order to get another post-doc for the community.

5. Contacted Sara Guediche to present a lab meeting in April on her research on speech perception.

6. Began scheduling visits to Brown, Michigan, Hawaii, Tromso, Berlin, Stockholm, and Amsterdam.

Kodi

1. Read about calculating KL divergence given either univariate or multivariate Gaussians. Worked on a script to calculate KL across vowel cue distrbutions.

2. CUNY poster -- got a partial draft in order.

3. Taught a session of BCS207 on data visualization in R

4. Edited stimuli for BCS207 project

5. Revised draft of the Bayesian speech perception perspective/intro/review paper

Andrew

1. Work on making Kodi's Socalign experiment work with getUserMedia and AudioContext APIs.

2. Pass at the BCS152 Tutorial, cleaning up invalid HTML. Finally passes the W3C validator.
3. Added Florian's postdoc ad to the lab website and did some other background updates to it.
4. Did my part of my annual performance review in the new online system. Felt as weird as always.

Olga

1. Updated all of dropbox to account to archive old material, update the new, and note the changed
2. Talked to Jenn
3. Planning to work on the tutorial on this snowy day (2/16)
4. 90 day warning for continuing review. Send me all your information or upload what needs to be uploaded to slate!! I would like to start this process early.

Esteban

1. Piloting of an eye tracking study to measure comprehension differences in different conditions of a production study.
2. RA training to do phonetic annotation.

3. Ran a ton of subjects on a follow up to the JML paper just out with Mike & Florian.

4. Doing a literature search and preparing a syllabus for a course on the usage of language in conversations and joint tasks.

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Grading.
2. Ran a review session for BCS 259.
3. Attended a bunch of job talks.
4. Worked more with RAs, finished setting up new kid task.
5. Showed RAs new wiki, considered teaching them how to use different kinds of programs that we regularly use in the lab.
6. Continued with Python course at CIRC (and on codeacademy), started the R course at CIRC.
7. Talked to Chigusa about my quals, scheduled a meeting with Flo.
8. Talked to some friends about their industry jobs, how they found them, what qualifications they felt they needed, how it relates to work they previously did, the pros and cons.

Zach

1. Analyzed more subtitle experiment data.
2. Preparing CUNY talk.
3. Gave a dry run of said CUNY talk

Linda

1. Ran some more subtitle experiments. Set up and ran the new during condition + 1500 ms.
2. Prepared additional sentences for recording (and went through old ones to mark bad ones) for eyetracking experiment. Reviewed images for eyetracking experiment.
3. Trained RA on how to record subjects.
4. Brainstormed and wrote out ideas for potential causal inference in gesture experiment with Mike, a follow-up on one of his old studies with Susan Wagner-Cook.
5. Proofread undergrad application for summer program.

6. Set up an AXB task for prosody experiment. Check it out here.

7. Stats HW.
8. Working on tidying up old pen in the mouth stuff.

Maryam

Wednesday

1. Creating new items for new phrase chunk priming experiment (w/ Roger)
2. Analyzing ditransitive pilot data
3. Programmed additional ditransitive experiments
4. Got model results from eyetracking project w/ Frank, thinking about other possible models
5. Stats homework
6. Read about power analyses, when to use them, etc