<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Research | Lee-Ann Vidal Covas, PhD</title><link>https://leeannvc.com/tags/research/</link><atom:link href="https://leeannvc.com/tags/research/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Research</description><generator>HugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><image><url>https://leeannvc.com/media/logo_hu_408c0977b7e48a52.png</url><title>Research</title><link>https://leeannvc.com/tags/research/</link></image><item><title>Spanish in Boston: Sociolinguistic Dataset &amp; Analysis</title><link>https://leeannvc.com/tech_projects/sib/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://leeannvc.com/tech_projects/sib/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="overview"&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This project involved designing and analyzing sociolinguistic datasets to investigate variation in Spanish speech. It demonstrates end-to-end experience in data creation, annotation design, quality assurance, and statistical analysis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="my-role"&gt;My Role&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Designed
for novel linguistic variables&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Managed dataset collection, curation, and QA workflows&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Supervised and trained student annotators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Led full research lifecycle from data design to statistical modeling&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="data--methods"&gt;Data &amp;amp; Methods&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Built and analyzed datasets of 70k+ tokens&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Conducted coding,
, and
in R&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applied
to investigate linguistic variation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Developed workflows for annotation consistency and data quality&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="outcome"&gt;Outcome&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Produced structured datasets for analyzing Spanish variation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Generated findings contributing to
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Demonstrated scalable approaches to linguistic data annotation and QA&lt;/li&gt;
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🧾 Annotation Guidelines
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