SFB 1646

Workshop Nils Reiter

Corpus Analysis: Annotation for Linguists ← What, What for and How?

Annotation plays a crucial role in computational and non-computational linguistics, and is used for training and testing automatic systems, understanding linguistic phenomena, statistically analysing experimental data, and others. The workshop looks at annotation as a research practice, and covers how do it when starting from scratch. We will discuss the role of annotation guidelines, how to evaluate annotations and what this evaluation means, and how to set up annotation rounds in practice. We will also look at ways of improving annotation speed with the help of machine learning models.

Workshop Thomas Weskott

Collecting Acceptability Judgments in an Experimental Setting

Acceptability judgments are one of the main sources of evidence in linguistics, and knowing how to tap into this source under controlled experimental conditions is an increasingly important skill. The goal of this course is two-fold: firstly, it aims to provide a basic understanding of the method, and how and to which linguistic domains it may be applied (day 1); and, secondly, to give a rough sketch of the analytical tools needed to make sense of judgment data (day 2). Participants are assumed to have basic command of elementary statistics.

Workshop Hans Rutger Bosker

Methods for Investigating Multimodal Communication

Human conversations involve much more than just exchanging sounds: we move, nod, and gesture to the rhythm of our speech. In this course, I'll introduce some of the methods in the study of multimodal communication, focusing on gesture-speech synchrony from both a production perspective (how do we time our gestures to our speech?) and perception (how does a (mis)aligned gesture change what we hear?). But the best way to grasp these methods is to apply them yourselves! Therefore, we will run our very own gesture-speech integration experiment during this course. So don't forget to bring your (fully charged) laptop!

Workshop Elen Le Foll 

Visualisation in R: The Grammar of Graphics

This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to both the syntax and the semantics of the Grammar of Graphics, as implemented in the popular R library, ggplot2. We will see how ggplot2 can be used to build customised plots layer-by-layer that allow us to visualise our data and the results of our analyses in a wide range of effective and informative ways.

Workshop Lena Heine 

Verbal Protocols and Introspection
 
Verbal protocols are an established means to investigate mental processes, procedural skills and reasoning and are frequently used in areas such as reading, testing and problem solving research. This workshop will present different forms of verbal protocol data and discuss their qualities. Questions of validity in analysis will be addressed and effects of different elicitation designs on data quality will be presented. A special focus will be laid on data elicitation in multilingual settings. The participants will be involved in some hands-on activities.

Acceptability Rating Tasks: Scales and Statistics

In this discussion session, we want to consider which scales and analysis methods can be used in rating studies and bring together the advantages and disadvantages of different scales (for example, Likert scales vs. interval scales with many values using sliders or other methods) and the possible statistical analyses that we can use with them, especially considering CLMMs, and other LMMs.

Thomas Weskott (Göttingen) and Farhat Jabeen (Bielefeld) will provide short inputs (ca. 15 minutes each) for the discussion, exchanging pros and cons for different methods, as well as open questions. The audience is welcome to add their questions and expertise to the discussions. Jutta Hartmann (Bielefeld) will moderate the discussion.

The discussion is meant for people with experience in rating studies and the statistical methods necessary for the analysis of the data. A basic background in statistics will be necessary to follow the discussion.

When? Thursday, July 24th, 3pm
Where? Building X, Room X-E1-201