We are thrilled to announce the accepted LSA Summer Institute Wednesday Workshops. These workshops are available to all registered students at the Institute at no additional cost. Log in to your Orbund account and register for workshops the same way you registered for courses. Go to “Enrollment & Schedules” > “Class Enrollment” > “Add by Dept.” then add the workshops you plan to attend. Note that there may be sign-up caps for certain workshops. More information on the location/specifics of each workshop to come!
*Note that there is no Wednesday, July 3rd workshop. Given the holiday (July 4th), we will be moving Thursday classes to Wednesday that week.
First Wednesday: June 26th
| Time | Workshop Title | Classroom |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-12:00pm | The Local in Language and Public Policy Organized by: Vaidehi Ramanathan (UC Davis) & Evan Bradley (Penn State University) | C |
| 12:00-4:30pm | Priming Methods in Word Recognition Organized by: Adam Ussishkin & Jonathan Geary (University of Arizona) | B |
Third Wednesday: July 10th
| Time | Workshop Title | Classroom |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-11:00am | Advancing LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics and Beyond: Outreach and Advocacy Organized by: Tyler Kibbey & Lal Zimman (UCSB) | C |
| 9:00-1:00pm | First Steps into Learner Corpus Research Organized by: Gaëtanelle Gilquin (University of Louvain) | B |
| 9:00-4:00pm | Turn Your Research into Public Engagement Activities Organized by: Cecile McKee (University of Arizona) & Laura Wagner (Ohio State University) | D |
| 10:00-12:00pm | Data Summer Camp: Mini-course on Reproducible Research Workshop 2: Putting it all together with Knitr, LaTeX, and R Markdown Organized by: Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell & Eve Koller (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) | A |
| 10:30-3:00pm | Web-based experiments with PennController for Ibex Organized by: Jeremy Zehr (University of Pennsylvania) | E |
| 2:00-4:00pm | Data Summer Camp: Mini-course on Reproducible Research Workshop 3: The Big Payoff -- How reproducible research can help your career Organized by: Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell & Eve Koller (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) | A |
Fourth Wednesday: July 17th
| Time | Workshop Title | Classroom |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:45am | Building Language Technology Across the World's Languages Morning lectures Organized by: Daan van Esch, Craig Cornelius, Shayna Lurya, Evan Crew, & Amanda Ritchart-Scott (Google) | D |
| 9:00-5:00pm | Scientific Writing in Linguistics Organized by: Shanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern) | B |
| 11:00-12:00pm | Q&A/Panel on Speech & Language Technology + Being a Linguist in Tech | |
| 10:00-12:00pm | Data Summer Camp: Mini-course on Reproducible Research Workshop 4: Being the best version of yourself with git and GitHub Organized by: Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell & Eve Koller (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) | A |
| 10:00-4:00pm | Large-scale Data Tools in Child Language acquisition Organized by: Mika Braginsky (MIT) & Michael Frank (Stanford) | C |
| 1:00-4:00pm | #LingWiki WorkshopWikipedia editathon for underrepresented languages and varieties Organized by: Gretchen McCulloch (Lingthusiasm) | E |
| 1:00-4:00pm | Building Language Technology Across the World's Languages Transcription Acceleration with Elpis: Easily Building Your Own Speech-to-Text Models (hands-on training) Organized by: Daan van Esch (Google), Craig Cornelius (Google), Nay San (Stanford), & Ben Foley (University of Queensland) | D |