Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 7

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

What we did over last week

Florian

• Research

  1. To-do

     • We need to talk about writing and how to maintain writing in the midst of an overwhelming semester.

  2. Planning

     • Got access to API for Enunciate. Talked with Helen Meng and her post-doc about extensions to the API, including ASR (in addition to automatic alignment), ranked hypotheses in output (rather than just top hypothesis), and inclusion of other language and acoustics models (they are using HTK).

     • Got access to data from large-scale cross-lab failure to replicate DeLong et al 2005 (early N400-ish effects, taken as evidence for preactivation).

     • Got data from Rachel Smith. Please let me know if you're interested in working on this project.

     • Updated travel schedule for Spring and beyond.

  3. Writing

     • Finished v2 of my Alexander von Humboldt application for a fellowship. Sent it out to my hosts at Saarbruecken and Potsdam.

  4. Feedback on

     • thesis chapter 2 for Darcy (at UC)
     • Lauren's application for CSLI summer internship
     • abstract of BCS207 group.
     • Linda's talk for the board of trustees
• . Logistics:

  1. Hiring: made Eleanor an offer for a post-doc position.

• Service:

  1. Editing

     • One new paper for LT

     • Got asked to edit special issue on emergent statistical methods for Journal of Phonetics with Bodo Winter. But I'm swamped. So, unless any of you plan to submit, I think I'll have to skip. Please give me a yes/no in the next lab meeting.

  2. Letters: 2 + 2 nominations for prizes (both new).

  3. Thesis committees: I will be on two thesis committees that have thesis due dates this Spring (Sebastian Sauppe, MPI; Darcy Rose, UC). Please keep that in mind in your planning (this takes up a lot of time).

Xin

1. Ran and analyzed control data from Exp.3 & 4 for BCS207 group; added baseline performance (predicted) as a predictor. Sadly (mysteriously) didn't bring us an expected effect. Further analyses needed.

2. Modified Exp1_v2 for the priming study (instructions, timing stamps, conditional practice trials). Ran & analyzed new data (n=16).

3. Read a couple of papers on reinforcement learning and memory systems.
4. Finished revision of cross-talker manuscript.
5. Had two individual meetings with RAs to walk them through project ideas.

Andrew

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

Zach

1. Revised CMCL paper...
2. Wrote specific aims for grant writing course
3. Working on cleaning up code for FL project, porting to servers
4. Quals readings!
5. Started giving Gaby driving lessons

Linda

1. Worked on Board talk. Got a full draft.
2. Grant writing HW. Perception + Cog Neuro readings.
3. Prepared and gave presentation for Perception class.
4. Feedback to Lauren on summer application. Blurb for Madeline for summer apps.
5. Coordinated drink+dessert+food buying with peeps for admissions weekend.

Wednesday

1. Worked on ditransitive talk
2. Made some simple beta-binomial updating models for learning syntactic alternations
3. Reading/hw for classes
4. CSP 519: graded homeworks, wrote up homework solutions, prepared lab
5. Went to so many talks. We have a lot this semester!!!

Shaorong

1. Worked on perception presentation
2. Worked on grant writing (significance)
3. Worked on NRT course project (extracting f0 and intensity from wavfiles)
4. Had quite a few free lunches and dinners with incoming talkers (I honestly don't remember signing up for that many...)