David Bamman
@dbamman
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Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities. Not active here; find me at @dbamman.bsky.social
Berkeley, CA
Joined October 2009
RT @UCB_ScholComm: From @dbamman (co-authored w/@rach_scholcomm) new paper today relying on #copyright exemption for decrypting DVDs to con….
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Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in ...
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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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RT @lucy3_li: How might one do classification in the era of LLMs for humanities research? 🤔. @dbamman, @KentKChang, @NaitianZhou & I apply….
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RT @NaitianZhou: In cultural analytics, accuracy is often not the only (or even primary) objective. Here, we explore the myriad ways CA us….
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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): More info here!
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Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data
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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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Well deserved, congrats Kent!.
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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RT @KentKChang: It’s an extraordinary pleasure and honor to teach alongside @dbamman and his wonderful students of NLP, now doubly so to ha….
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See Naitian at poster #5!
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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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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RT @NaitianZhou: Hey NLPals, I'll be at #NAACL2024 this upcoming week! Let's chat about sociocultural NLP, what it means to study culture,….
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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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RT @PrincetonCDH: 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….
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RT @_akpiper: Very excited to announce the launch of our citizen science initiative "The Lives of Literary Characters" hosted @the_zooniver….
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RT @katakeith: 🚨NLP+CSS workshop is back and will be at NAACL 2024!. Paper submission deadline: March 24 Organizin….
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Congrats to Masha et al on this best industry paper award! (Masha’s a Berkeley School of Information MIMS alum!).
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). #EMNLP2023 #NLProc.
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Awesome work! Congrats @nikita_mehandru @swetaagrawal20 et al!!!!.
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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RT @MarineCarpuat: I’m thrilled that this Human-Centered MT paper was recognized with an outstanding paper award at #EMNLP2023. Congratulat….
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