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Workshops & guest lectures

Online Workshop "Rethinking statistics: Bayesian approach", March 13, 2024

The aim of this course is to provide participants with a basic understanding of Bayes Rule and of the reasoning behind the Bayesian approach to statistics. For this, we will need to review a few important concepts, including variables, distributions, probability, and parameters of statistical models. I will present examples of analyses performed in the Bayesian context. This workshop is an introduction to the Bayesian approach. Participants will not learn to perform Bayesian analyses on their own.

Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 14:15-16:00

Location: Zoom (link will be provided after registration)

Speaker: Prof. Audrey Bürki

Workshop: Meet the families- finding the distribution to model your data, December 13, 2023

Not everything in life is normal(ly distributed). Finding a distribution that adequately represents your outcome variable is a (the?) key challenge in our quest for an appropriate statistical model. In this little workshop, we will discuss some of the data types typically encountered in linguistic research, introduce statistical distributions that are commonly used for them, as well as briefly discuss how to implement, check and address typical challenges with distributional choices.

Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:15-16:00
Location: Andreastrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, 3rd floor, room AND 3-46
Speaker: Andri Manser

Please register by December 8, 2023 to Sandra.Schwab@uzh.ch.

Computational and Quantitative Approaches to Multimodal Video Analysis - CAMVA, June 22-23, 2023

22-23.06.2023, University of Zurich

Computational and Quantitative Approaches to Multimodal Video Analysis - CAMVA 2023

Link to more information on CAMVA 2023

Swissdox@LiRI Hackathon Workshop, June 12, 2023

12.06.2023, University of Neuchâtel, as part of the 8th edition of SwissText

The goal of this workshop is to find changes, trends and correlations in Swiss newspapers, from a political, historical, social or linguistic perspective.

Link to more information on SwissText website

Link to data sources on Swissdox@LiRI page

Introduction to Mixed-Effects Models, May 17, 2023

Sandra Schwab and Huw Swanborough from LiRI's Stats & Machine Learning group offer a three hour workshop about Mixed-Effects Models applied to Linguistics.

The workshop will provide an introduction to mixed-effects models, both at the conceptual and practical levels. Concrete examples taken from linguistics will be analyzed in R.

Prerequisite: the participants should know how to run regression models in R and should be able to interpret regression outputs (i.e., intercept, coefficients).

Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 14:15-16:45

Location: Room AND 4.57, Andreastrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Campus Oerlikon

Speakers: Sandra Schwab & Huw Swanborough

Please register by May 9, 2023 to Sandra.Schwab@uzh.ch

Experimental Methods in Language Science, Spring Semester 2023

Two talks in spring semester 2023

Thursdays, 16.15 to 18:00.

Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend.

Date Invited Speaker Title  
16 March David Reich, Machine Learning Group, University of Potsdam

Synthesizing human gaze data for inference tasks from eye movement

Abstract (PDF, 80 KB)

Room KOL-G-221
11 May Dr Claire Nance, Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

Gaelic tongues: Phonetic typology and implications for sound change 

Abstract (PDF, 144 KB)

Room AND-4-02
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zürich

 

Workshop on Animal vocal segmentation using Whisper, May 5, 2023

Nianlong Gu, member of the NCCR@LiRI group, presents the Open AI tool Whisper

Everybody who is interested is welcome to join this LiRI Brown Bag Lunch Meeting.

Date: 2023-05-05, 12:30 to 13:30

Room: AND 4.55/4.57, Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zürich

For more information and registration see this page.

Workshop on Building Online Experiments in Gorilla, April 27, 2023

Interested in running a study online, but don’t know where to start? In this workshop you will learn how to implement experiments in Gorilla: an easy-to-use online experiment builder tool. We will cover building tasks and questionnaires using Gorilla’s Task Builder, how to combine them into an experiment and run it. We will also look into the data files with results from your experiment produced by Gorilla, and how to organise these data into a form suitable for running statistics. No programming experience required.

Date: 2023-04-27 14:00 to 17:00

Room: AND 4.57

NIRS Training, April 6, 2023

 

Date: Thursday 2023-04-06 (fully booked)
The training assumes no prior knowledge and begins with a general introduction to NIRS, to the hardware, montage design and set-up, then finally how to record data.

Guest lectures and Workshop on Speaker Identity and Recognition, May 27, 2022

Guest lectures and Workshop on Speaker Identity and Recognition, May 27, 2022

Jody Kreiman (UCLA Health) and Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary University of London)

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Workshop on Dealing with Corpora, November 24, 2021

The LiRI Language Technology Team organized a workshop introducing its experience and work with corpora.

Program

14:00-14:45

Semantic Spaces and Demarcation within Swiss COVID-19 Discourses

Noah Bubenhofer

14:45-15:15

Spoken dialect corpora

Teodora Vuković

15:15-15:45

Language patterns and change in a bipolar disorder forum

Danny McDonald

15:45-16:00

Break

16:00-16:45

Working with parallel corpora

Johannes Graën

16:45-17:00

Discussion

for everyone interested in more details

 

Please register by sending an e-mail to info.liri@linguistik.uzh.ch until 23 November 2021.

The definite room and the Zoom link will be communicated after successful registration.
 

Organization of the workshop: Johannes Graën, Nikolina Rajovic and Stefan Bircher

Workshop on LiRI's virtual infrastructure, September 22, 2021

22nd September 2021, 14:00 - 17:00

The LIS team organized a workshop introducing the LiRI Information System (LIS) and LiRI's virtual infrastructure.

Program

14:00-14:30

Vue.js at a glance

Overview of the JavaScript framework Vue.js, used for the implementation of the as yet largest LiRI project's web interface

14:30-15:15

Best practice on working with Git

Presentation and discussion of best practice on version control with Git.

15:15-15:30

Break

15:30-16:45

Introducing the LiRI virtual infrastructure

Presentation of the LiRI virtual infrastructure, exemplified by means of services developed by the LIS team and hosted at LiRI.

16:45-17:00

Discussion

for everyone interesed in more details.

Organization of the workshop: Johannes Graën and Stefan Bircher

Workshop on dynamical system in speech, January 11, 2021

Workshop on «dynamical system in speech» offered by Dr. Leonardo Lancia from Paris III. 
The one-day workshop was held on Jan. 11, 2021 via Zoom.
 
Outline of the workshop: 
 
Part I. symbols and processes. How the application of dynamical system theory aims at linking the symbolic and material aspects of speech production.

1 DS concepts and taxonomy

2 Connecting dynamical systems and human (goal-oriented) behavior 

3 Self-organizing properties of complex dynamics and the functioning of the sensorimotor system

4 Properties of dynamical systems and where to find them

 

Part II. analyses 

1 The two approaches to time series analysis: modeling shapes vs modeling dynamics.

2 Extracting information relevant to the analysis of the dynamics underlying observed time series.

3 Decomposition

4 Other approaches

            

Workshop on recording and measuring motions of the articulators, limbs and the respiratory system, with an emphasis on methodology, January 7 and 8, 2021

Workshop from ZAS-Berlin moderated by Dr. Susanne Fuchs.

The topic of the workshop was on recording and measuring motions of the articulators, limbs and the respiratory system, with an emphasis on methodology.

Workshop days: 7-8 January 2021

Schedule of the workshop:

7th of January

9:00 - 10:30

Oksana Rasskazova (TU Berlin)

Tutorial on simultaenous EMA + Respitrace recordings. Data analyses using Mview (written by Mark Tiede in MATLAB)

10:30 - 10:45 Pause
10:45 - 11:45

Aleksandra Ćwiek (ZAS & HU Berlin)

Application: Motion capture experiment

11:45 - 12:00 Pause
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion for all people who are interested in more details

8th of January

9:00 - 10:30

Heather Weston (ZAS and HU Berlin)

Investigating speech breathing: Methods tutorial for respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP)

10:30 - 10:45 Pause
10:45 - 12:00

Hélène Serre, Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Nadege Rochat, Marion Dohen

Tutorial on the Etisense plethysmography system (advantages and limits) and how to record with an Optitrack system, the Etisense plethysmography system and audio in synchrony

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion for all people who are interested in more details

Contact: Dr Lei He, former LiRI lab manager: lei.he@uzh.ch

Workshop on the generalized additive model, December 7, 2020

Workshop on the generalized additive model and a review of EMA practices from 900+ studies offered by Prof. Dr. Martijn Wieling and Teja Rebernik from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Dec. 7, 2020.

Anyone who is interested in the workshop should view two pre-recorded lectures (ca. 5 hours in total) and read a tutorial article at their own pace first before the workshop.

During the workshop, from 12:45 to 15:45, Prof. Wieling will answer questions, and help with practical difficulties you encountered in learning. From 16:00 to 17:00, Teja Reberink will give a lecture on an extensive review of EMA practices from 900+ studies.

Organization: Dr Lei He, former LiRI lab manager, contact: lei.he@uzh.ch

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LiRI workshop on linear mixed-models II: From hypotheses to interpretation with an example, 18 October, 14:15-15:45

This workshop is the continuation of the workshop organized in May 2023 by LiRI. We will illustrate the use of linear mixed-effects models with a concrete example taken from linguistics.

Prerequisite: The participants should have attended the workshop organized in May 2023 or should be familiar with mixed-effects models and should know how to run them in R.

Date: Wednesday, October, 18, 2023, 14:15-15:45
Where: via Zoom
Speakers: Audrey Bürki

Please register by October 13, 2023 to Sandra.Schwab@uzh.ch to receive the Zoom link and material.

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Mixed-Effects Models applied to Linguistics

Workshop about Mixed-Effects Models, 17th of May, 14:15 - 16:45, Room AND 4.57, Campus Oerlikon, offered by LiRI Stats&ML group members.

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CAMVA Workshop June 22-23

Computational and Quantitative Approaches to Multimodal Video Analysis

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Meet the families: finding the distribution to model your data, 13 December, 14:15-16:00

Not everything in life is normal(ly distributed). Finding a distribution that adequately represents your outcome variable is a (the?) key challenge in our quest for an appropriate statistical model. In this little workshop, we will discuss some of the data types typically encountered in linguistic research, introduce statistical distributions that are commonly used for them, as well as briefly discuss how to implement, check and address typical challenges with distributional choices.

Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:15-16:00
Location: Andreastrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, 3rd floor, room AND 3-46
Speaker: Andri Manser

Please register by December 8, 2023 to Sandra.Schwab@uzh.ch.