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UF Virtual Student Research Symposium on Computational Linguistics (21st — 23rd April 2021)

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 21st April 2021 till Friday 23rd April 2021. 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 13:55–14:45 on Wednesday 21st April 2021.
Asynchronous: The presenter will be actively engaging with, you, the audience asynchronously through out the three days (21st, 22nd and 23rd). 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: Predictability and Prominence in American Sign Language

Team: Madelyn Kloske, Cody LaFlamme and Landon Ludlow
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/17446766/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/dXqcXTP2rhjp3C3v5
Zoom ID: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94531389562

Poster 2: How can Crowdsourced Word–Emotion Association Lexicons be improved to capture personality on social media more accurately?

Team: Jared Peters, Nicholas Sileo, and Dominik Skotarczak
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/17443236/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/H9PAu6z2ca2iu9qTA

Poster 3: Morphological Segmentation algorithms: an error analysis

Team: Jose Cabrera
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/17470268/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/igyRiMwKRZtAEjDS9
Zoom ID: 910 7422 2872

Poster 4: Evaluating Performance of Machine Learning Systems on Normalization of User-Generated Content

Team:  Kayleigh Burge, Enes Grahovac and Zachary Wilkerson
Poster: https://voicethread.com/share/17470426/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/5uvPQRgLsLLEN7sR7
Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/98184976425

Poster 5: A simulation study exploring the role of pronoun in gender stereotypes

Team: Shengyu Liao and Rayyan Merchant
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/17471287/
Evaluation:  https://forms.gle/bJdSHnvC1PiQCF4e9

Poster 6: Demonstrating Speaker Dependence on Sarcasm Data

Team: Noah Harris and Nathan Jessurun
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/17470277/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/sZdg2E89t1pPwze19

Poster 7: Comparing Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Coding Tasks between Groups of Middle School and Undergraduate Students

Team: Amanda Griffith, Zane Price, Xiaoyi Tian
Poster: https://ufl.voicethread.com/share/17470886/
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/BqR6LxXUtdULJagB8
Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/91326524262?pwd=QVQxaitSNTRWZlh2bkUzbllES1BFQT09