TY  - JOUR
A1  - Naujokat, Stefan
A1  - Neubauer, Johannes
A1  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
A1  - Steffen, Bernhard
A1  - Joerges, Sven
A1  - Margaria, Tiziana
T1  - Simplicity-first model-based plug-in development
JF  - Software : practice & experience
N2  - In this article, we present our experience with over a decade of strict simplicity orientation in the development and evolution of plug-ins. The point of our approach is to enable our graphical modeling framework jABC to capture plug-in development in a domain-specific setting. The typically quite tedious and technical plug-in development is shifted this way from a programming task to the modeling level, where it can be mastered also by application experts without programming expertise. We show how the classical plug-in development profits from a systematic domain-specific API design and how the level of abstraction achieved this way can be further enhanced by defining adequate building blocks for high-level plug-in modeling. As the resulting plug-in models can be compiled and deployed automatically, our approach decomposes plug-in development into three phases where only the realization phase requires plug-in-specific effort. By using our modeling framework jABC, this effort boils down to graphical, tool-supported process modeling. Furthermore, we support the automatic completion of process sketches for executability. All this will be illustrated along the most recent plug-in-based evolution of the jABC framework, which witnessed quite some bootstrapping effects.
KW  - plug-ins
KW  - simplicity
KW  - domain-specific APIs
KW  - process modeling
KW  - bootstrapping
KW  - evolution
KW  - code generation
KW  - loose programming
KW  - dynamic service binding
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.2243
SN  - 0038-0644
SN  - 1097-024X
VL  - 44
IS  - 3
SP  - 277
EP  - 297
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stone, Kate
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Schad, Daniel
T1  - Divergence point analyses of visual world data
BT  - applications to bilingual research
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - Much work has shown that differences in the timecourse of language processing are central to comparing native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers. However, estimating the onset of experimental effects in timecourse data presents several statistical problems including multiple comparisons and autocorrelation. We compare several approaches to tackling these problems and illustrate them using an L1-L2 visual world eye-tracking dataset. We then present a bootstrapping procedure that allows not only estimation of an effect onset, but also of a temporal confidence interval around this divergence point. We describe how divergence points can be used to demonstrate timecourse differences between speaker groups or between experimental manipulations, two important issues in evaluating L2 processing accounts. We discuss possible extensions of the bootstrapping procedure, including determining divergence points for individual speakers and correlating them with individual factors like L2 exposure and proficiency. Data and an analysis tutorial are available at https://osf.io/exbmk/.
KW  - divergence point analyses
KW  - non-parametric approaches
KW  - bootstrapping
KW  - visual world eye-tracking
KW  - bilingualism
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000607
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 24
IS  - 5
SP  - 833
EP  - 841
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -