David Bamman

Just a testimonial: potato 1.0 is amazing and I use it all the time for annotation. Excited to see what’s in 2.0!

New paper to appear at EACL 2026 main conference, and it's now up on arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17536. The character limit here is insane, so I'll let the screenshots speak for themselves. We put together a new dataset for conversational role attribution & thread disentanglement.

Calling out the papers by name in the appendix is noteworthy. Obvs mistakes happen (as the authors note in their choice to report it) but it’s a useful caution that highlights the stakes: you don’t want to end up in an appendix like this

That DHS/ICE and anyone up or down the chain could describe this murder victim as a “domestic terrorist” is utter depravity.

This is such a great post — and “rituals” (describing some conventions of a community around knowledge production, like publication checklists) is le mot juste

I used to be astonished that John Keats wrote everything by 26yo (and still am) but now newly in awe to learn that late Beatles (“let it be” etc) were 29?!

And for my own research corner, I’d definitely encourage those working in computational social science/cultural analytics to consider it.

This program brought together such a wonderful group of ~30 PhD students for two weeks at Berkeley last year with backgrounds in sociology, information, law, computer science and more — same idea but in Oxford next summer; apply by Feb 2 if you’re looking to make connections across fields

Oxford Internet Institute – UC Berkeley School of Information Summer Doctoral Program The UC Berkeley School of Information is partnering with the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) to bring the OII Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) to Berkeley. It will be held at Berkeley and Oxford in alternating years, beginning at Berkeley in 2025, and br...

📢 Ph.D. STUDENTS: The app is now open to join us for the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program, an opportunity for students to learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies! #AcademicSky

Deadline ⏰: 2/2
#OIISDP #OIIBerkeleySDP
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Congrats Oleg!!

The research would not exist without you!

@francescom.bsky.social you’re one of these friends I was thinking about!

Which had me look up that song in my Shazam history (yes I had to Shazam it), and sure enough it was there — the only time I’ve been able to pinpoint the exact moment a research idea took shape (1:38pm on 7/14/23)

Berkeley wrote up our work on measuring the stories in contemporary songs and had me reflect on the origin of that work in Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”

I’ve been to 3 now and I think it keeps getting better — next year Manchester early Jan!

While we might expect the singer-songwriters of the 1960s to be a high-water mark for narrativity, we find the opposite: narrativity has been steadily increasing, largely due to the rise of the strongly narrative genres of hip hop and rap.

Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century?

anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences Overview  [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...

New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

This talk made me want to connect these findings to those of @heuser.bsky.social @mellymeldubs.bsky.social et al. -- do LLM translations of Homer (i.e., poetry) sound like Lattimore or are they just in iambic pentameter (like Lattimore I think but unlike Wilson, who is more free verse).

En route to #CHR2025 in Luxembourg — looking forward to seeing people there!

Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

A staircase in the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison. Tan wood structures surround tapestry art and a small indoor garden.

A view from above of the staircases in the Wisconsin CDIS building

An shot from below of winding wooden staircases and a glass atrium rooftop. The new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison.

A bicolor white cat with seal-colored markings, looking upwards with big wide dark eyes.

It's the season for PhD apps!! 🥧 🦃 ☃️ ❄️

Apply to Wisconsin CS to research
- Societal impact of AI
- NLP ←→ CSS and cultural analytics
- Computational sociolinguistics
- Human-AI interaction
- Culturally competent and inclusive NLP
with me!

lucy3.github.io/prospective-...

why intern at Ai2?

🐟interns own major parts of our model development, sometimes even leading whole projects
🐡we're committed to open science & actively help our interns publish their work

reach out if u wanna build open language models together 🤝

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Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Unfortunately, I expect that the fact they won a pretty resounding fair use victory is going to be lost in much of the coverage. They lost on downloading & storing the LibGen dataset (straight infringement!), but the act of training on copyrighted material (+ making their own ebooks) was a win.

A Gentleman in Moscow!

+1 to SocArXiv for this too -- we had a similar experience with a recent cultural analytics paper of ours (that I love!) that has a better home there.

This is such a pity -- "Push It" has, hands down, the greatest hook of all time (and the original version is now only available on youtube?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCad...

I realized recently that in 10 years of teaching I don't think I've ever asked students to pay for a textbook for a class -- largely due to these excellent draft chapters of Jurafsky & Martin.