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...
Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data
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
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...
Computational Humanities is now available! (OA version this winter.) Thank you to the amazing contributors, co-editors extraordinaire @dmimno.bsky.social@laurenfklein.bsky.socialwww.upress.umn.edu/978151791598...
The first book to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, Compu...
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...
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/
I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:
Now that the semester’s wound up, I wanted to share the readings Giulia Taurino and I and the students in our seminar on Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science put together. We had a great time, they wrote some good papers, and hopefully this will be useful. github.com/dasmiq/cs718...
Special Topics in AI: Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science - dasmiq/cs7180-sp2024
🚨NLP+CSS workshop is back and will be at NAACL 2024! Paper submission deadline: March 24 sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...@dallascard.bsky.social Dirk Hovy and myself
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The 'Call for Papers' for CHR2024 is out! 📝 Submission deadline is July 8. There have been some changes to submission types and you can also propose workshops 🛠️. More info can be found here: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/#CHR#cfp