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arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190 we're still tinkering, but couldn't wait to share.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Postdoc opportunity at the School of Information Sciences, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching one course a semester. Application deadline April 1, but they recommend conversation with potential faculty mentors in advance of that date. Renewable for a second year. Pls RT! ischool.illinois.edu/research/pos...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is. A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things. Website: naitian.org/culture-not-... 1/n

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

A new study by Ph.D. student @dan-hickey.bsky.social found that weekly rates of hate speech on X rose about 50% in the months after its purchase. 🔍 “We need to know when we’re getting content moderation right and when we’re getting it wrong," he said. More: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2025/st...

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I need an explainer for the Ross/Westlaw case that tells me what Ross was “training” — a generative QA system? A search engine? Is it just retrieving the bulk memos (that infringe on the headnotes?). Not clear to me how AI is implicated @bbutler.bsky.social @matthewsag.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

New @ai2.bsky.social paper accepted to #NAACL2025! We worked with Teaching Lab and ASSISTments to create a new dataset for evaluating VLMs. DrawEduMath includes 2,030 teacher-annotated images of students’ handwritten responses to math problems. Website: drawedumath.org

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

New issue of my newsletter: “Books, AI, and the Public Good: A New Grant” — A Mellon-funded project to develop an ethical, public-interest way to incorporate books into artificial intelligence

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

See this article by @rachaelgs.bsky.social and @authorsalliance.bsky.social emphasizing the need for researchers to work with their libraries (the ones who negotiate contracts with publishers) to not negotiate away their fair use rights

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Article I co-authored in @pnas.org demonstrating Hollywood films getting more diverse. Funded by @mellonfoundation.bsky.social, research possible only b/c we helped @authorsalliance.bsky.social change copyright regs governing digital locks in computational research news.berkeley.edu/2024/11/04/w...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Go @naitian.org ! #chr2024

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One last train ride away from #CHR2024 — looking forward to chatting with so many people there! Today, see @kentkchang.bsky.social talk about subversive characters in session 1B at 1:30pm 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

There are many ways to identify texts that seem ahead of their time. Our CHR 2024 paper asks which measures of textual precocity align best with social evidence about influence and change.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

🚀📢 BookNLP-fr is here! A major step for french computational literary studies by the Lattice Lab team—Frédérique, Olga, Martial, Clément, @tpoibeau.bsky.social and I! 🌍 The French expansion of @dbamman.bsky.social’s BookNLP project 📖 doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #ComputationalHumanities #NLP

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Papers from our group! 🤓 - Queer culture in television: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper... - Acting in American film: naitian.org/once-more-wi... - Classification w/ LLMs in cultural analytics: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

The Berkeley Info School is hiring an open-rank tenure-track professor in "digital security, safety and trust". Please help get the word out, and if you're working in this space, apply! (Deadline Jan 3.) aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04668

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Hats off to @naitian.org too for the perfect paper title (-- for research that analyzes the multiplicity of emotional performances of the same dialogue phrase in film)

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🎬 Coming soon to a theater near you!🍿 Film is a semiotically rich medium: meaning is conveyed through the music, visuals, language, and more. A new paper from me and @dbamman.bsky.social explores what it means to computationally study performance in film. Website: naitian.org/once-more-wi... 1/n

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

submitted 100 days ago • 10 comments

📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information. Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers! Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph... And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group in 2025-2026. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! UW iSchool PhD apps due Dec 2nd: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd... More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Big new paper out today! In which we use the 2021 DMCA exemption for text and data mining to build a new large collection of film and measure representation for gender and race/ethnicity within it. (w/ @ucbscholcomm.bsky.social @richardjeanso.bsky.social @naitian.org) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

I love concerts that are albums, and this particular album, but really did it have to be this one day?

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Lucy is a rock star and you should all hire her!

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

My group just finished up a new paper that I'm excited to get out into the world: "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" (to be published at CHR): github.com/bamman-group...

submitted 150 days ago • 4 comments

Computational Humanities is now available! (OA version this winter.) Thank you to the amazing contributors, co-editors extraordinaire @dmimno.bsky.social and Jessica Marie Johnson, the team Minessota, and series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social and Matt Gold! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791598...

submitted 156 days ago • 4 comments

Schmidt Sciences has announced a new funding initiative for work at the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence. They're also seeking two-page concept papers to help inform the initiative (deadline Aug 23). 🧪 www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

Berkeley is hiring a cluster of faculty in "AI, Inequality, and Society", including at the School of Information. The deadline is super early though -- apply by Sept 16!! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

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My group is busy working on papers to submit to the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) workshop in Dec -- last year was great; if you have work in this space, please do consider submitting and hope to see you there! (Deadline July 8.) 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

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