Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities. Not active here; find me at @dbamman.bsky.social
Joined October 2009
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David Bamman retweeted
From @dbamman (co-authored w/@rach_scholcomm) new paper today relying on #copyright exemption for decrypting DVDs to conduct #textdatamining. Using the exemption, authors built a collection of film to measure representation for gender and race/ethnicity pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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Lucy is a rock star and you should all hire her!
Hi friends, colleagues, followers.
I am on the faculty job market! I am a PhD student @BerkeleyISchool @berkeley_ai. I work on NLP, and I believe all language, whether AI- or human-generated, is ✨social and cultural data✨. My work includes: 🧵
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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.
30 Sep 2024
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/ca-c…. More info here! bsky.app/profile/dbamman.bsk…
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David Bamman retweeted
1 Oct 2024
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.
30 Sep 2024
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/ca-c…. More info here! bsky.app/profile/dbamman.bsk…
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30 Sep 2024
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/ca-c…. More info here! bsky.app/profile/dbamman.bsk…
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27 Aug 2024
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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4 Aug 2024
Well deserved, congrats Kent!
3 Aug 2024
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 retweeted
3 Aug 2024
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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17 Jun 2024
See Naitian at poster #5!
16 Jun 2024
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.
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17 Jun 2024
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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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!
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).
ALT a screenshot of the upper part of the first page of the paper, including the title, author list, and abstract.
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David Bamman retweeted
16 Jun 2024
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.
16 Nov 2023
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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17 Jun 2024
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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David Bamman retweeted
Join us on Monday, 2/26 at 4:30 pm for a lecture by @dbamman: The Promise and Peril of Large Language Models for Cultural Analytics.
RSVP: forms.gle/by1m6xHzTLhjJQbd8
More info: cdh.princeton.edu/events/202…
Co-sponsored by @PrincetonPLI.
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David Bamman retweeted
23 Jan 2024
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/citi…
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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/alle… 🧵(1/6)
ALT a screenshot of the first page of a research paper titled "AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters" with a diagram showing a paraphrased excerpt for a website's about page, with common stated social dimensions emphasized with highlighting. The dimensions are: individuals or organizations, social roles, geographic locations, and topical interests.
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David Bamman retweeted
22 Dec 2023
🚨NLP CSS workshop is back and will be at NAACL 2024!
Paper submission deadline: March 24 sites.google.com/site/nlpand…
Organizing team: @anjalie_f @dallascard @dirk_hovy and myself
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10 Dec 2023
Congrats to Masha et al on this best industry paper award! (Masha’s a Berkeley School of Information MIMS alum!)
10 Dec 2023
EMNLP 2023 Best Industry Paper
Personalized Dense Retrieval on Global Index for Voice-enabled Conversational Systems
(Masha Belyi, Charlotte Dzialo, Chaitanya Dwivedi, Prajit Muppidi, Kanna Shimizu)
aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-…
#EMNLP2023 #NLProc
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10 Dec 2023
Awesome work! Congrats @nikita_mehandru @swetaagrawal20 et al!!!!
10 Dec 2023
I’m thrilled that this Human-Centered MT paper was recognized with an outstanding paper award at #EMNLP2023. Congratulations to lead authors Nikita Mehandru (@ucberkeley iSchool) and @swetaagrawal20 (@umdclip @istecnico) for making this interdisciplinary collaboration a success!
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David Bamman retweeted
10 Dec 2023
I’m thrilled that this Human-Centered MT paper was recognized with an outstanding paper award at #EMNLP2023. Congratulations to lead authors Nikita Mehandru (@ucberkeley iSchool) and @swetaagrawal20 (@umdclip @istecnico) for making this interdisciplinary collaboration a success!
7 Dec 2023
2/8 "Physician Detection of Clinical Harm in Machine Translation: Quality Estimation Aids in Reliance and Backtranslation Identifies Critical Errors"
with @nikita_mehandru @swetaagrawal20 @elainekhoong Niloufar Salehi among others
arxiv.org/abs/2310.16924
virtual2023.emnlp.org/paper_…
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