George Alexander

Scientific Section
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Started brainstorming/designing some experiments to test Whorfian effects in game design/user interfaces

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Engineering Section
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Updated language analysis data with fresh plots/word clouds, including plots for each scene/role pair.
Added list of top collocations for each scenario
Language analysis reports are now generated programmatically, except for the word clouds.

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Need to start looking for clusters in the [...]

Scientific Section
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Started researching how to make word clouds automatically, since Wordle doesn’t provide an API

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Having trouble finding/developing an algorithm for laying out the words in the cloud (all the papers I found discussed tag clouds, where the problem is how to choose a font scaling to show relative word frequency in a nice [...]

Scientific Section
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Engineering Section
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Did some more design on language analysis tool (TAUNT)
Installed/configured phpMyAdmin on playground to allow web administration of study DB (this should make it much more user-friendly to correct the missing scenario/role numbers issue, make sure the description data is formatted consistently, and create a separate table to store just the description [...]

Scientific Section
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Engineering Section
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TAUNT will now load the study 1 data, allow data subset selection based on scenario/role, and create word frequency plots
Created word frequency plots based on study 1 data for each scenario X {text, video} pair.
Created a web page in the GIG2008 repository to display the language analysis results (including word clouds [...]

Scientific Section
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Need to finish work on TAUNT and start performing detailed analysis of study data

Engineering Section
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Worked through several tasks with NLTK, becoming more familiar with the API (figured out how to extract the data I want into NLTK, create word frequency plots, find interesting bigrams and trigrams)
Began working on TAUNT (Textual Analysis Using [...]

Scientific Section
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Started lit search for papers dealing with content generation from unstructured textual descriptions

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Engineering Section
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Extracted textual scenario descriptions from Study 1 Data and created word clouds from them

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Need to become much more proficient with Python/NLTK
Need to finish developing tool chain for extracting information from the study data format

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Completed CITI Program IRB training (Completion Report)

Still waiting [...]