I am the developer of PCIbex, an open-science solution for desgining and running online experiments. You can learn how to use it here and try it for yourself here (no account required). The project is currently generously funded by mindCORE.
PCIbex stands for PennController for IBEX. IBEX is an open-source experimental software designed by Alex Drummond, and "controllers" are its modules. PCIbex started off as a simple extension for IBEX before it became an entity of its own. Now, the term PCIbex covers multiple aspects of the solution: its specific mini-language, the javascript engine that runs experiments, and the online platform where users can create and host their experiments.
In addition to my work on PCIbex, I have worked on and/or developed several data-collection-related tools and pipelines while working at LiRI and LDC. Here I briefly describe my role in two of the projects that I worked on:
At LiRI, I have been working on the Pyhon back-end and javascript front-end implementation of a web platform to upload and query corpora of several millions of tokens; the corpora can have rich structures (hierarchical layers, dependency relations, named entities) and include with multimedia content.
My role at LiRI also includes assisting researchers with developing technical solutions; I have in particular designed javascript-based, tablet-run linguistic experiments.
In order to automatize the collection and processing of conversation recordings for LDC, I created an Android and iOS mobile app in Flutter that records audio signal as a WAV file and uploads it to AWS services where it can be processed.
I am interested in formal semantics and pragmatics, with a particular focus on scales, presuppositions and implicatures.
My most recent project, in collaboration with Nattanun Chanchaochai, documents and investigates the use of the Thai particle kʰɯ̂n as an operator that can alternatively preserve and reverse the orientation of scalar predicates. While operators found in English are exclusively preserving (eg. "warm up") or reversing (eg. "less warm"), Thai ʔùn kʰɯ̂n (="warm KHUEN") can describe both temperature increases (much like "warm up") and decreases from higher temperatures (≈"closer to being warm"). This, to our knowledge, is the first documented instance of a grammaticalized degree operator that demonstrates ambidirectionality. See the SALT abstract
Please feel free to email me about my research and if you need any abstract, slides or manuscript.
