RA Meeting, TERM 2016, Week 7

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

NLTK for Python: http://www.nltk.org/ It's a bunch of corpora and analysis methods, as well as a book of Python for computational language research. --Bethany

What we did over last week

Madeline

Did some last minute testing of the eyetracking experiment w/ Wes
Put up flyers for Masha's partner study
Redcaaaaaaaap
Went to Chicago (again) and got some hilarious sunburns
Went through Masha's partner study with her to check for errors
Hid inside away from the sun because it hates me

Bethany

Registered for AMLaP! I'm going to my first science conference and moving to a new country all in the same week, and I'm going to die but it will be educational.
Talked with Anne Pier about using videos as stimuli in eyetracking experiments. It would be interesting to include nonverbal cues in the pragmatic unreliability stuff, or for something else.
Ran the last 4 subjects for Scott's experiment
Mech turk norming analysis
Methods section writing/editing
(Got sick and lost a couple days)

Emily

Lauren

Ran 2 subjects
Practiced ggplot on R
Finished statistical bunching papers

Wesley

Ran a subject
Did last minute testing of the experiment
Wrapped up analysis of my twitter data for morphosyntax reading group
Continued my hunt for art for the plurality study
Wrapped up background research on intoxicated speech