MADELINE R. CLARK madeline.clark@rochester.edu

(207) 233-2397

https://www.linkedin.com/in/madelinerclark

CMC Box 275720

500 Joseph C Wilson Blvd

Rochester, NY 14627

EDUCATION

August 2014 – May

2018 (expected)

Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics and Japanese, University of Rochester

GPA: 3.82 (4.00 scale), Dean’s List (4 out of 4 eligible semesters)

September 2016 –

December 2016

Center for Japanese Studies – Certificate of Participation, Nanzan University

Study abroad in Nagoya, Japan during Fall 2016

LINGUISTICS EXPERIENCE

February 2015 –

Present

Research Assistant, University of Rochester – Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department

· Working under Prof. T. Florian Jaeger (UR) in the Human Language Processing (HLP) Lab, and

Prof. Chigusa Kurumada (UR) in the Kinder Lab

· Splices audio files and phonetically annotates them in Praat

· Prepared sentences and photos for an eye-tracking study

· Creates animated videos in Poser 7 for language-learning study

· Transcribes and codes audio recordings of subjects of artificial language-learning studies

· Ran subjects in both eye-tracking studies and consecutive mock language-learning studies

May 2016 – August

2016

Research Assistant, University of Rochester – Linguistics Department

· Working under Prof. Jeff Runner (UR) in the Lattimore Eye-Tracking Lab

· Reorganized result data from previous experiments

· Analyzed average results of judgment tasks and removed subjects whose answers fell below a

certain standard deviation

· Created new stimuli for new judgement experiments

January 2016 –

March 2016

Assistant, Prof. Wayne Cowart, PhD

· Working under Wayne Cowart, PhD (University of Southern Maine)

· Creating quiz questions for introductory phonetics/phonology course, including reading IPA,

waveforms, and spectrograms

· Manufactured sine waves and spectrograms in Praat

November 2015 –

April 2016

Research Assistant, University of Rochester – Computer Science Department

· Working under PhD Candidate, Omid Bakhshandeh (UR)

· Parses sentences and annotates them with semantic labels for the purpose of creating natural

language understanding Artificial Intelligence

June 2015 – August

2015

Intern, Vital Text Systems

· Performed efficiency study for co-founder Wayne Cowart (University of Southern Maine) on

prototype version of software designed to identify ambiguous language in high-value documents

(prototype searched for coordination and pronoun ambiguity)

· Researched and applied to multiple angel investors for CEO Gordon Monk

· Created comprehensive result tables (both for efficiency study and for investor research) in

Excel

PUBLICATIONS

Poster Presentations

Clark, M., McGuire, G., Khaled, N., Kohn, M., Morgan, C., Orth, W. Vaccaro, A., and Armoskaite, S. (2016). Let’s

talk X. Dimensions of D Workshop, University of Rochester, Sept. 17-18.

COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS

· Experience with annotating and creating sound files in Praat

· Knowledge of Python 2.7 and of Python 3.5

· Beginner experience with NLTK

· Beginner experience coding in PyGaze

· Beginner experience with Tandem-Straight via Matlab R2013a

· Experience with eye-tracking (both headset and headstand)

· Running experiments through Amazon Mechanical Turk

· Experience creating experiments using Qualtrics

· Experience with pivot tables and overall use of Microsoft Excel

CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

· Linguistics Undergraduate Counsel (2015-Present)

· President (May 2016-Present)

· Japanese Students Association (2014-Present)

· Programming Chair (Jan 2016-May 2016)

· Modern Language and Cultures Undergraduate Counsel (2014-Present)

· Community Outreach Chair (Dec 2014-May 2015)

· IES Abroad Ambassador (2016-Present)

· National Society of Collegiate Scholars (2015-Present)

· IB Alumni Network (2015-Present)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

University of Rochester

· Religions of Japan (REL 173)

· Modern China, 1600-Present (HIS 143)

· Defining Marriage in Modern America (WRT 105)

· Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (LIN 110)

· Intermediate Conversational Japanese (JPN 114)

· Intermediate Japanese II (JPN 152)

· The History and Structure of Chinese and Japanese

(CHI 213)

· Introduction to Grammatical Systems (LIN 220)

· Introduction to Language Sound Systems (LIN 210)

· Advanced Intermediate Japanese I (JPN 202)

· Advanced Conversational Japanese (JPN 204)

· Morphology (LIN 226)

· Technical Computing (CSC 108)

· Language Development (LIN 208)

· Applied Statistics for Social Sciences I (STT 211)

· The Art of Programing (CSC 161)

· Advanced Intermediate Japanese II (JPN 203)

· Topics in Language Contact (LIN 388)

· Data Science for Linguistics (LIN 250)

· Syntactic Theory (LIN 260)

· Advanced Japanese II (JPN 206)

Nanzan University

· New Intensive Japanese 610 – Japanese for

Communication (10610)

· New Intensive Japanese 620 – Japanese Reading and

Writing (10620)

· New Intensive Japanese 630 – Project Work (10630)

· Japanese Linguistics I – Introduction to Japanese

Syntax (41010)

· Japanese Linguistics II – Phonology (41020)

· Observation and Analysis of Japanese Language

Activities (41040)

· Japanese Culture and Tea Ceremony (85011)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACCOLADES

· International Baccalaureate Diploma recipient (2014)

· Diploma #D 003346 0003 ffk238

· CITI certified (minimal-risk research) (2015-Present)

· Dean’s Scholarship recipient (2014-Present)

· University of Rochester Discover Grant recipient (2016)

LANGUAGES

· English (native fluency)

· Japanese (advanced proficiency)

· Spanish (beginner proficiency)

· Latin (knowledge of grammar/structure)