2024 Spring
Registration: https://forms.gle/hnnbr6LBBdZsMDUv5
April 23 (Tuesday) 3:00pm (UTC+8)
Nina Markl (Institute for Analytics and Data Science, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex)
"Algorithmic Language Management: understanding how new (?) technologies reproduce old language ideologies"
Abstract: In this talk, I discuss some work-in-progress on the language ideologies re-produced by popular language technologies. My recently completed PhD research has focused on language variation and algorithmic bias in automatic speech recognition. Building on this work which empirically demonstrated how commercial ASR tools reproduce existing linguistic hierarchies, and considered the gaps in popular datasets used to benchmark ASR tools, I am exploring ways to theorise the effects of speech recognition, generative AI and machine translation on the way we think and talk about communities and their language(s). By bringing together research how technologies and language(s) function in society, I want to clarify how “new” technologies – or rather the way we socially construct them -- amplify old discourses through a process we might want to call “algorithmic language management”.
Registration: https://forms.gle/KjL93FuqPGKQuWbU6
May 21 (Tuesday) 12:10pm
Tzu-Hsuan Yang (The University of Kansas)
"Collecting data online: Gorilla workshop"
Abstract: With the evolution of remote studies, more and more scientific researchers are shifting to online platforms to conduct their experiments. This workshop will introduce Gorilla Experiment Builder, a newly emerging tool that helps take your research online. With its user-friendly graphical interface and comprehensive feature sets, Gorilla allows researchers to design complex studies in an intuitive way.
In this workshop, I will give an overview of how to get started with Gorilla, and walk you through how to create common tasks in behavior and cognitive research (e.g., 2-alternative forced-choice tasks, priming tasks). We will also touch upon combining different tasks and questionnaires into an experiment, and how recruiting participants works on Gorilla.
