David Bamman

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David Bamman

David Bamman

@dbamman

Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities. Not active here; find me at @dbamman.bsky.social

Berkeley, CA Katılım Ekim 2009
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Lucy Li
Lucy Li@lucy3_li·
How might one do classification in the era of LLMs for humanities research? 🤔 @dbamman, @KentKChang, @NaitianZhou & I apply LLMs on ten tasks from prior cultural analytics lit. Larger LMs are competitive w/ older methods on established tasks, but perform less well on new ones.
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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/c…. More info here! bsky.app/profile/dbamma…

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Naitian Zhou
Naitian Zhou@NaitianZhou·
In cultural analytics, accuracy is often not the only (or even primary) objective. Here, we explore the myriad ways CA uses classification, how LLMs compare to other commonly used methods, and how they might enable new approaches to sensemaking from text data.
David Bamman@dbamman

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/c…. More info here! bsky.app/profile/dbamma…

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David Bamman@dbamman·
Big congrats to @KentKChang for passing his qualifying exam today! Lots of super exciting work on measuring social interactions in culture in the pipeline --
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Kent K. Chang
Kent K. Chang@KentKChang·
It’s an extraordinary pleasure and honor to teach alongside @dbamman and his wonderful students of NLP, now doubly so to have my small part recognized by @BerkeleyISchool & UC Berkeley.
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David Bamman@dbamman·
@tallinzen Is that his “pharmacy”?? I saw it years ago at moma and have been wanting to see it again!
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Tal Linzen@tallinzen·
One last recommendation for #naacl2024 nerds is the Damien Hirst show at Museo Jumex! Everyone hates the dots etc but he's actually very good
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David Bamman@dbamman·
For anyone at #NAACL2024 considering lucha libre, I can attest it was spectacular (though that may be influenced by attending with my 9yo)
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Lucy Li
Lucy Li@lucy3_li·
I’m headed to NAACL to present this paper! I’m around mostly Sunday evening thru Tuesday. This fall I’ll be doing some thinking about what to do after my PhD; if you have advice/thoughts about this definitely chat with me!
Lucy Li@lucy3_li

New preprint! 🎉 We examine two contrasting yet common assumptions around what it means for an NLG model or system to be “fair” or “good”: 1⃣ treating all social groups the same, where “bias” = any diff in outputs (invariance), or 2⃣customizing outputs to them (adaptation).

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Naitian Zhou
Naitian Zhou@NaitianZhou·
Hey NLPals, I'll be at #NAACL2024 this upcoming week! Let's chat about sociocultural NLP, what it means to study culture, and finding variation in unusual places (like memes!) I'll be presenting this memes paper at the first poster session.
Naitian Zhou@NaitianZhou

Memes are pervasive in online speech. Do they have the socially meaningful variation we see in other aspects of language? YES! New preprint from me, @david__jurgens and @dbamman on the semantic structure and visual diversity of 3.8M Reddit memes. 🌐 naitian.org/social-memeing

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David Bamman@dbamman·
Looking forward to seeing people at #NAACL2024 this week! Today, be sure to check out @NaitianZhou's poster on the sociolinguistics of memes (11am) and @lucy3_li's talk on concepts of fairness in NLG systems at 2:36pm (ethics/bias/fairness 1)
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Maria Antoniak
Maria Antoniak@maria_antoniak·
In Fall 2025, I’ll be joining @CUBoulder’s CS Department! I’m so excited to join this group of researchers, students, and teachers in the beautiful Rocky Mountains ☀️ I’ll be recruiting students this fall to start in 2025, so please send applicants my way!
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Andrew Piper
Andrew Piper@_akpiper·
Very excited to announce the launch of our citizen science initiative "The Lives of Literary Characters" hosted @the_zooniverse. This is the first ever literary citizen science project that aims to promote story understanding. A Thread 🧵 zooniverse.org/projects/citiz…
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Lucy Li
Lucy Li@lucy3_li·
New preprint! 📜 We investigate how ten “quality” and English langID filters, drawn from prior lit on LLM pretraining data curation pipelines, affect webpages linked to self-descriptions of their creators. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06408 Data: huggingface.co/datasets/allen… 🧵(1/6)
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