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UF Virtual Student Research Symposium on Computational Linguistics (22nd — 24th April 2020)

Introduction

Dear Faculty and Students,

As part of the Introduction to Computational Linguistics (LIN4930) course, I am pleased to announce that there will be an exciting Virtual Research Poster Symposium from 6am on Wednesday 22nd April 2020 till Friday 24th April 2020. The symposium will be partly synchronous (via Zoom) and partly asynchronous (with a chat feature).  In total, there are 7 projects and the students have been worked very hard to integrate what they have learnt this semester in a mini research project. Your engagement with the posters and the students will be very much appreciated!

Synchronous: The presenters will be available to Zoom during 12:50–13:40 on Wednesday 22nd April 2020.
Asynchronous: The presenter will be actively engaging with, you, the audience asynchronously through out the three days (22nd, 23rd and 24th). The system, VoiceThread allows to you to chat with text, voice and video comments (you will need to log in with Gator link to do so).

Access: To access their posters, you simply use the VoiceThread link provided below, and you’d be directed to a webpage. You will be greeted with a short poster pitch video in the first slide. The poster will be on the second slide.
Navigate:  To move between slides, you simply use the left/right arrow buttons/keys. To navigate the poster, you will need to use the zoom-in & zoom-out buttons and drag your cursor around.
Comments: To leave asynchronous comments/questions, use the speech bubble sign with ‘+’ — located in the centre of the bottom edge.

Evaluation: There will be a link for you to evaluate each of their posters (see below). Your evaluation would help the students improve their work and it is an integral part of their learning in this course!!!

On behalf of the students, I thank you for your kind engagement and critical feedback!!!

Dr. Kevin Tang (Instructor)

Click the poster title or scroll down to view the links

Poster 1: Determining Syntactic Features in English Registers with Expectation-Maximization

Team: Reese Porter and Aeyzechiah Vasquez
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14167845/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/hVexqiURCoaKW9yC6

Poster 2: Fiction vs Non-Fiction: Classification by Regression and Random Forest

Team: Dylan Attlesey, Guerline Pedilus, Nicholas Salazar
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14221644/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/yC37Purjbsstf26T9

Poster 3: From Canon to Fanfiction: Gender & Genre Trends

Team: Samantha Creel and Michael Bottini
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14170167/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/wkc1EPKfYDFBkECx8

Poster 4: Japanese Formality Score

Team: Halee Corbin and Mason Collins
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14217500/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/HPnoKKyv36K7zyGz9

Poster 5: Reducing Racial Bias in Word Embeddings using Word2Vec

Team: Hae Won Kim, Alejandro Lopez and Monae Mckinney
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14179726/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/g8bTohpFDH5FxByF7

Poster 6: Noisy-context surprisal could predict sentence processing cost: evidence from self-paced reading and eye-tracking data

Team: Pamir Gogoi and Yucheng Liu
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14221343/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/ayBriELGacF98TMj9

Poster 7: Wolof Universal Dependency Parsing

Team: Daniele Basalone, Atharva Chopde and William Dyer
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/14169950/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/Lrzkte39wnHmfm8s5