Adriana Picoral
- Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
Contact
- (520) 621-6613
- GOULD-SIMPSON, Rm. 721
- TUCSON, AZ 85721-0077
- adrianaps@arizona.edu
Biography
Adriana Picoral holds a PhD in applied linguistics and a bachelor's degree in computer science. Her research draws from corpus and computational linguistics to shed light on multilingual language use, acquisition, and development. She has extensive experience in collecting, processing, maintaining, and analyzing language data, both in academic settings and in industry. She is also the founder of R-Ladies Tucson, which is part of a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community.
Degrees
- Ph.D.
- University of Arizona, Arizona, United States
- B.S. Computer Science
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- A game to teach Portuguese to speakers of other languages: development and usability testing
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Computer Programming I
CSC 110 (Fall 2024) -
Preceptorship
CSC 391 (Fall 2024) -
Software Development
CSC 210 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Computer Programming I
CSC 110 (Spring 2024) -
Computer Programming I
CSC 110 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Computer Programming I
CSC 110 (Spring 2023) -
Computer Programming I
CSC 110 (Fall 2022) -
Data Visualization
CSC 444 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Directed Research
INFO 692 (Summer I 2022) -
Applied Data Visualization
ISTA 320 (Spring 2022) -
Capstone
INFO 698 (Spring 2022) -
Data Analysis and Visualizatio
INFO 526 (Spring 2022) -
Applied Data Visualization
ISTA 320 (Fall 2021) -
Data Science, Public Interests
INFO 536 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Applied Data Visualization
ISTA 320 (Spring 2021) -
Intro to Data Science
ESOC 214 (Spring 2021) -
Intro to Data Science
ESOC 214 (Fall 2020)
2017-18 Courses
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Port for Span Speakers
LAS 305A (Spring 2018) -
Port for Span Speakers
PORT 305A (Spring 2018) -
Port for Span Speakers
LAS 305A (Fall 2017) -
Port for Span Speakers
PORT 305A (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Inter Grammar+Convers
PORT 325A (Fall 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Gao, J., Picoral, A., Staples, S., & Macdonald, L. (2021). Citation Practices of L2 Writers in First-Year Writing Courses: Form, Rhetorical Function, and Connection with Pedagogical Materials. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 100005.
- Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheid, A., Staples, S., & Reppen, R. (2021). Automated annotation of learner English. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 7(1), 17 - 52. doi:https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.20003.pic
- Picoral, A., & Carvalho, A. M. (2020). The Acquisition of Preposition + Article Contractions in L3 Portuguese among Different L1-Speaking Learners: A Variationist Approach. Languages, 5(4).
Proceedings Publications
- Picoral, A., Stumpf, E., Goulart, L., Barros, I. C., Sommer-Farias, B., Matte, M. L., Garcia, M. C., & Bertho, M. C. (2021). Parallels Between Spoken and CMC Language: Do Tweets Reflect Spoken Language Choices?. In of the 8th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora (CMC-Corpora 2021).
Presentations
- Centanin-Bertho, M., Novikov, A., Staples, S. L., Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheid, A., & Sommer-Farias, B. (2021, June). Soaring higher with MACAWS: Integrating iDDL with other web applications to enhance language learning. Invited Workshop for CERCLL.
- Gao, J., Staples, S. L., Sanchez, K., Novikov, A., & Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheid, A. (2021, July). A web-based citation annotation tool for L2 English academic texts: Combining machine and human power. Corpus Linguistics.
- JoEtta, A., Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheid, A., Goulart, L., Novikov, A., Shin, J., & Staples, S. L. (2021, July). Applying machine learning techniques to the study of L2 English student text-types. Corpus Linguistics.
- Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheid, A., & Hammond, M. (2021). quantitative research. SLAT colloquium.
- Staples, S. L., Novikov, A., Sommer-Farias, B., & Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheid, A. (2021, June). iDDL: A report on creating and using interactive corpus-based activities. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium.
