Personal Details
Suzanne Hermana Johanna Adriana Aussems
87 Hearsall Lane
Coventry CV5 6HF
+44 (0)77 4157 8937
Dutch
March 18, 1989
suzanneaussems@gmail.com
Education
2014 - 2017
PhD, University of Warwick
Developmental Psychology
2012 - 2014
MPhil, Tilburg University & Radboud University Nijmegen
Language & Communication (with honours)
2011 - 2012
MSc, Tilburg University
Human Aspects of Information Technology (integrated in MPhil)
2010 - 2011
MA, Tilburg University
Art, Culture & Society (with honours)
2007 - 2010
BA, Tilburg University
Culture Studies
2001 - 2007
Athenaeum/Gymnasium
Dr. Mollercollege, Waalwijk
Publications
2015
Vogt, P., Mastin, J.D., & Aussems, S. (n.d.). Early vocabulary development in urban and rural Mozambique. Submitted for publication.
2015
Aussems, S., Chu, M., Kita, S., & van Zaanen, M. (2015). Applying
Pattern-based Classification to Sequences of Gestures. In Noelle, D. C.,
Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D.,
& Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society (pp. 124-129). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science
Society.
2015
Aussems, S., & Vogt, P. (2015). Adults Track Multiple Hypotheses
Simultaneously during Word Learning. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio,
P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society (pp. 118-123). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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2014
van Zaanen, M., van Huyssteen, G., Aussems, S., Emmery, C., & Eiselen, R. (2014). The development of Dutch and Afrikaans language resources for compound boundary analysis. In N. Calzolari et al. (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 1056-1062). Reykjavik, Iceland.
2013
Aussems, S., Goris, B., Lichtenberg, V., van Noord, N., Smetsers, R. &
van Zaanen, M. (2013). Unsupervised identification of compounds. In
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine
Learning (pp. 18-25). Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2013
Aussems, S., & Vogt, P. (2013). Exploring cross-situational learning
and mutual exclusivity [Abstract]. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz,
& I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3874). Austin: TX: The Cognitive
Science Society.
2013
Aussems, S., Bruys, S., Goris, B., Lichtenberg, V., van Noord, N., Smetsers, R. & van Zaanen, M. (2013). Automatically identifying compounds
[Abstract]. In Book of abstracts of the 23rd meeting of Computational
Linguistics in the Netherlands (p. 10). Enschede, The Netherlands.
Funding
2014 - 2017
Institution
Funding
2015
Institution
Funding
Departmental PhD Fellowship
University of Warwick
Department of Psychology
Grindley Grant for Conference Attendance
Lancaster University
Experimental Psychology Society
2012 - 2015
Institution
Funding
Research and Travel Budget
Tilburg University
Department of Communication and Information Sciences
2012 - 2013
Institution
Funding
Academy Assistant Bursary
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
Royal Netherlands Academy of Science
2011
Institution
Funding
T-Challenge Research Grant
Tilburg University
Tilburg Town Hall
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Teaching Experience
2014 - 2015
Institution
Module(s)
Teaching Assistant
University of Warwick
Research Methods (1st year undergraduate)
Persuasion and Influence (3rd year undergraduate)
Theoretical Issues in Nonverbal Behaviour (3rd year undergraduate)
Advanced Statistics in R (postgraduate)
2013 - 2014
Institution
Module(s)
Teaching Assistant
Tilburg University
Academic Writing and Methodology (1st year undergraduate)
Academic Experience
2013
Institution
Task
Research Assistant
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
Compound (boundary) annotation and analysis within the AuCoProproject (Automatic Compound Processing-project).
2013
Institution
Task
Research Assistant
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
Developing a dataset consisting of 3-dimensional recordings of gestural
communication using the Kinect, by conducting an experiment with 50
student participants.
2012 - 2013
Institution
Task
Research Traineeship
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
Within the CASA MILA research group I conducted two experimental
studies during my traineeship: one to measure the accuracy of deictic
gestures (object identification task completed by 43 adult participants),
and one to measure engagement levels of 1-to 2-year-old children within
a joint attentional frame (video recordings of parent-child interaction
judged by 86 adult participants).
2012 - 2013
Institution
Task
Academy Assistant
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
Conducting an experimental study to explore mutual exclusivity and
cross-situational learning as mechanisms that underlie word learning.
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Organised Events
2015
Institution
Child Language Symposium (20-21 July)
University of Warwick
2015
Institution
Gesture in Language Development Workshop (19 July)
University of Warwick
2014
Institution
Tilburg Gesture Research Workshop (19-21 June)
Tilburg University
Attended Workshops
2014
Institution
Module(s)
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research X
Utrecht University
Computational methods
Multilevel analysis
ERP (event-related potentials)
2014
Institution
Module(s)
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
VU University of Amsterdam
Language and gesture
Quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis
Neurobiology of language
2013
Institution
Module(s)
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research IX
Utrecht University
Eye tracking
Preferential looking/listening
Statistics with R
2013
Institution
Module(s)
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
University of Leiden
Inferences and text comprehension
Computational analysis of discourse
Information structure and linking syntax and semantics
2013
Institution
Module(s)
R Workshop
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen)
Hands-on sessions with R
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Conference Presentations
2015
Aussems, S., Chu, M., Kita, S., & van Zaanen, M. (July, 2015). Applying Pattern-based Classification to Sequences of Gestures. Poster
presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
(CogSci), Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California.
2015
Aussems, S., & Vogt, P. (July, 2015). Adults Track Multiple Hypotheses Simultaneously during Word Learning. Talk presented at the 37th
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Pasadena
Convention Center, Pasadena, California.
2014
van Zaanen, M., van Huyssteen, G., Aussems, S., Emmery, C., & Eiselen, R. (May, 2014). The development of Dutch and Afrikaans language
resources for compound boundary analysis. Poster presented at the
Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC). Harpa building, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2013
Aussems, S. & Vogt, P. (2013, August). Exploring cross-situational
learning and mutual exclusivity. Poster presented at the 35th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
2013
Aussems, S., Goris, B., Lichtenberg, V., van Noord, N., Smetsers, R.
& van Zaanen, M. (2013, June). Unsupervised identification of compounds. Talk presented at the 22nd Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference
on Machine Learning (BENELEARN). Radboud University, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
2013
Aussems, S. (2013, February). Exploring mutual exclusivity and crosssituational learning. Talk presented at the KNAW (Royal Netherlands
Academy of Science) Academy Assistants Symposium. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
2013
Aussems, S., Bruys, S., Goris, B., Lichtenberg, V., van Noord, N., Smetsers, R. & van Zaanen, M. (2013, January). Automatically identifying
compounds. Talk presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). University of Twente,
Enschede, The Netherlands.
2012
Aussems, S. (2012, June). Cheating, lying, and stealing. How literature
affects the reader. Poster presented at the Conference Onderzoek in
Cultuureducatie. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Technical Skills
Languages
Python, Visual Basic, AWK, and R for statistical computing.
Software
Statistical Analysis Software (IBM SPSS Statistics), Experimental Psychology Software (E-Prime, OpenSesame), Video annotation software
ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator), Machine learning software in
Java (WEKA), and software tools such as Microsoft Office and LATEX.
Webtools
Qualtrics, WordPress, and Thesistools.
Statistics
Correlation, Non-Parametric tests, one-sample t-test, independent
t-test, paired-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, ANCOVA, Factorial ANOVA, repeated-measures designs for ANOVA, Mixed design
ANOVA, MANOVA, Mixed Model Analysis, linear regression, multiple
regression, logistic regression.
Language Proficiency
Dutch
English
German
French
Italian
Mother tongue
Advanced
Intermediate
Intermediate
Beginner
References
Name
Affiliation
Department
Telephone
Email
Prof. Dr. S. (Sotaro) Kita
University of Warwick
Psychology
+44 24 7652 8184
s.kita@warwick.ac.uk
Name
Affiliation
Department
Telephone
Email
Dr. P.A. (Paul) Vogt
Tilburg University
Communication and Information Sciences
+31 13 466 2594
p.a.vogt@tilburguniversity.edu
Name
Affiliation
Department
Telephone
Email
Prof. Dr. N.J. (Nick) Enfield
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Language and Cognition Department
+31 24 352 1275
nick.enfield@mpi.com
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