Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of period prose does not pro...
New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question hereβjust show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +
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Cornell UP has a new book series on AI & humanities, "Mechanema." 25-50k words, quick turn-around. I'm not the editor, but happy to make introductions. Hit me up if you have ideas or questions!
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Cornell University, English
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Postdoc in DH at Cornell. Housed in English, but open to all relevant disciplines incl. IS, CSS, and social CS. Applications (letter and CV) due 21 March. Start date July 1 (maybe flexible). Feel free to circulate widely, and to contact me with questions! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746
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AI for Humanists project logo
π¨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!π¨
We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting
We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews.
Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!
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The 2025 Conference on Language Modeling will take place at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada from October 7-10, 2025
I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
Professor of English and the Director of the Humanities Institute at The University of Texas in Austin . My book is Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives (MIT Press 2024).
Working on AI and access to knowledge at Harvard. Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative; Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center.
Where: HathiTrust Research Center, iSchool, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
What: DH+Libraries, multilingual DH, Russian literature, children's literature, translation.
How: However I can.
LM/NLP/ML researcher Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
yoavartzi.com / associate professor @ Cornell CS + Cornell Tech campus @ NYC / nlp.cornell.edu / associate faculty director @ arXiv.org / researcher @ ASAPP / starting @colmweb.org / building RecNet.io
VP of Information Design at Nomic building new interfaces to embeddings; former history professor/digital humanist. Bsky for humanities/dataviz-y things, @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social for techy stuff, the bad place for business.
https://benschmidt.org
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
jmhessel.com
NLP PhD; Seattle bike lane enjoyer; posts about machine learning, language processing, computer vision, transit
Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
Assistant Professor @ Emory University
NLP Researcher at EleutherAI, PhD UC San Diego Linguistics.
Previously PleIAs, Edinburgh University.
Interested in multilingual NLP, tokenizers, open science.
πBoston. She/her.
https://catherinearnett.github.io/
Assistant Professor, UCLA Sociology and California Center for Population Research
https://www.ianlundberg.org/
Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And sheβs not deadly. Sheβs beautiful and sheβs laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor.
Prof at UChicago (https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/hoyt-long-phd)
Professor of English + Digital Humanities @McGill
Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.
