Software Details
| Title: | Updated MiniJudge (judgment experiment software) |
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| Submitter: | James Myers |
| Description: | MiniJudge, a software tool for designing, running, and analyzing small-scale linguistic judgment experiments, has finally been updated: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/MiniJudge.htm As always, MiniJudge is aimed at theoretical linguists, especially syntacticians, who want a quick and reliable way of double-checking doubtful data, but who have little or no prior experience with psycholinguistic methods. Its built-in limitations may make it less useful for experienced experimentalists, but theoreticians who just want quick answers to basic data questions can go from hypothesis to final analysis within a few hours (assuming that native speakers are readily accessible). There are now two versions: * MiniJudgeJS 1.0: I think I've finally fixed all of the bugs, and it's now been successfully tested in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari (there are still some glitches in Linux). The most noticeable improvement over the 0.9 version is that the final analysis includes a graph, which makes it easier to see what the results actually mean, especially interactions. There is both an English and Chinese (traditional) interface. As before, the code is entirely client-side, so MiniJudgeJS can be used offline. * MiniJudgeJava 0.9.9: This is a version that runs in Java, written by my research assistants (Tsung-Ying Chen and Yang Chen-Tsung, with instructions by Yu-Guang Ko). It has a very different look and feel from MiniJudgeJS and some of the internal algorithms work differently, but the end result should be the same. The biggest practical difference, compared with MiniJudgeJS, is that it makes it easier to open and save files. Both versions pass the statistics over to R, the free software package. The info page has been expanded to include R code for analyzing experiments more complex than the default MiniJudge type. The next version of MiniJudge will probably be able to handle the statistics internally. MiniJudge is still a work in progress, and isn't as user-friendly as it will be in later versions. The project is entirely open-source, and programmers are encouraged to borrow code or ideas for their own software. Comments, questions, bug reports, and offers to collaborate are most welcome! |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Syntax |
| LL Issue: | 18.1495 |
| Date Posted: | 16-May-2007 |
