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David Bamman
@dbamman.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.
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O no, this link? It's up for me (even when I try outside our network) but let me know if it's still not accessible yosemite.ischool.berkeley.edu/david/papers...

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This work is only possible because others have openly released data -- thank you all! See the paper and data/README.md in the repo for the full list. We also got helpful reviews for CHR, which I continue to be excited about as a venue (2024.computational-humanities-research.org)

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The official version will be up on Arxiv in a few weeks and at CHR in December but wanted to get this out asap in case the paper (and data, more importantly) can be useful for fall teaching; all datasets in the repo are in a common format for people to play around with.

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We 1.) survey a bunch of papers in cultural analytics to create a typology on the uses of classification; 2.) gather 10 datasets from those papers; 3.) use them to benchmark different classification methods (logreg, MLMs, LLMs) and 4.) use them for a new exploratory sensemaking exercise

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Wilkens et al. present methods for measuring character mobility in English fiction. Diachronically analyzing 13k+ books (1789-2000), they find that characters in fiction move less and follow more formulaic paths than in nonfiction. doi.org/10.48694/jcl...#LiteraryMobility#CLS#Fiction#English

Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction
Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction

The representation of mobility in literary narratives has important implications for the cultural understanding of human movement and migration. In this paper, we introduce novel methods for measuring...

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Yes! Not sure I’ve ever been able to get it threaded in less than 15 mins

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I have that same serger!

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David Bamman
@dbamman.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.
372 followers238 following30 posts