Culture and
Computation Lab

Welcome! The Culture and Computation Lab is a lab at Cornell University specializing in the intersection of the arts, social sciences, and engineering. Our work builds on research in cultural analytics, natural language processing, digital humanities, legal studies, etc.

Read more about our work here, and see our members here.

2025-10-10	NarraBench: A Comprehensive Framework for Narrative Benchmarking Sil Hamilton, Matthew Wilkens, Andrew Piper
2025-08-02	Show or Tell? Modeling the evolution of request-making in Human-LLM conversations Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025
2025-07-26	Are You There God? Lightweight Narrative Annotation of Christian Fiction with LMs Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Brian Haggard, Mia Ferrante, Rayhan Khanna, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025
2025-05-20	Too Long, Didn't Model: Decomposing LLM Long-Context Understanding With Novels Sil Hamilton, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Matthew Wilkens, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025
2025-05-20	Cheaper, Better, Faster, Stronger: Robust Text-to-SQL without Chain-of-Thought or Fine-Tuning Yusuf Denizay Donder, Derek Hommel, Andrea Wen-Yi Wang, David Mimno, Unso Eun Seo Jo arXiv.org, 2025
2025-04-25	Data Paradigms in the Era of LLMs: On the Opportunities and Challenges of Qualitative Data in the WILD Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno CHI Extended Abstracts, 2025
2025-04-08	The Zero Body Problem: Probing LLM Use of Sensory Language Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025
2025-04-02	Tasks and Roles in Legal AI: Data Curation, Annotation, and Verification Allison Koenecke, Edward H. Stiglitz, David Mimno, Matthew Wilkens arXiv.org, 2025
2025-03-31	Endometriosis Communities on Reddit: Quantitative Analysis Federica Bologna, Rosamond Thalken, Kristen Pepin, Matthew Wilkens Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025
2025-03-31	Do Chinese models speak Chinese languages? Andrea Wen-Yi Wang, Unso Eun Seo Jo, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025
2025-02-26	A City of Millions: Mapping Literary Social Networks At Scale Sil Hamilton, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David Mimno, Matthew Wilkens Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, 2025
2025-02-20	Lost in Space: Finding the Right Tokens for Structured Output Sil Hamilton, David Mimno
2025-02-05	Looking for the Inner Music: Probing LLMs' Understanding of Literary Style Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David M. Mimno Computational Humanities Research, 2025
2025-01-01	Lost in Space: Optimizing Tokens for Grammar-Constrained Decoding Sil Hamilton, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025
2024-10-16	Context is Key(NMF): Modelling Topical Information Dynamics in Chinese Diaspora Media R. Kristensen-Mclachlan, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Márton Kardos, M. Thunø Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, 2024
2024-10-13	Quilt: Custom UIs for Linking Unstructured Documents to Structured Datasets Pragya Kallanagoudar, Chithra Anand, Rolando Garcia, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Eunice Jun, Sarah E. Chasins ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2024
2024-10-11	SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION: Computational Frontiers for Conceptual Metaphor Theory Rebecca M. M. Hicke, R. Kristensen-Mclachlan Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, 2024
2024-09-29	Judicial self fashioning: Rhetorical performance in Supreme Court opinions Rosamond Thalken, David M. Mimno, Matthew Wilkens Discourse Studies, 2024
2024-09-17	Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Yuri Bizzoni, P. Moreira, R. Kristensen-Mclachlan arXiv.org, 2024
2024-08-01	Endometriosis Online Communities: How Machine Learning Can Help Physicians Understand What Patients Are Discussing Online. Kristen Pepin, Federica Bologna, Rosamond Thalken, Matthew Wilkens Journal of minimally invasive gynecology, 2024
2024-07-17	Automate or Assist? The Role of Computational Models in Identifying Gendered Discourse in US Capital Trial Transcripts Andrea Wen-Yi Wang, Kathryn Adamson, Nathalie Greenfield, Rachel Goldberg, Sandra Babcock, David Mimno, Allison Koenecke AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2024
2024-07-12	How Chinese are Chinese Language Models? The Puzzling Lack of Language Policy in China's LLMs Andrea Wen-Yi Wang, Unso Eun Seo Jo, Lu Jia Lin, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2024
2024-07-02	What We Talk About When We Talk About LMs: Implicit Paradigm Shifts and the Ship of Language Models Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024
2024-04-19	Stronger Random Baselines for In-Context Learning Gregory Yauney, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2024
2024-02-29	Endometriosis Online Communities: A Quantitative Analysis Federica Bologna, MS Rosamond Thalken, MS Kristen Pepin, Mph Matthew Wilkens Md medRxiv, 2024
2024-02-06	Detecting Mode Collapse in Language Models via Narration Sil Hamilton SCALELLM, 2024
2024-01-31	[Lions: 1] and [Tigers: 2] and [Bears: 3], Oh My! Literary Coreference Annotation with LLMs Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David M. Mimno LATECHCLFL, 2024
2024-01-14	The Afterlives of Shakespeare and Company in Online Social Readership Maria Antoniak, David M. Mimno, Rosamond Thalken, Melanie Walsh, Matthew Wilkens, Gregory Yauney Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2024
2024-01-01	Contextualized Topic Coherence Metrics Hamed Rahimi, David M. Mimno, Jacob Louis Hoover, Hubert Naacke, Camélia Constantin, Bernd Amann Findings, 2024
2024-01-01	“Get Their Hands Dirty, Not Mine”: On Researcher-Annotator Collaboration and the Agency of Annotators Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
2023-11-29	Hyperpolyglot LLMs: Cross-Lingual Interpretability in Token Embeddings Andrea Wen-Yi Wang, David Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
2023-11-15	Data Similarity is Not Enough to Explain Language Model Performance Gregory Yauney, Emily Reif, David M. Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
2023-10-27	Modeling Legal Reasoning: LM Annotation at the Edge of Human Agreement Rosamond Thalken, Edward H. Stiglitz, David M. Mimno, Matthew Wilkens Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
2023-10-27	T5 meets Tybalt: Author Attribution in Early Modern English Drama Using Large Language Models Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David M. Mimno Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, 2023
2023-07-07	Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Matthew Wilkens Orbis Litterarum, 2023
2023-07-06	Establishing Connectivity and Trust in High Schools During COVID-19 Lisa De Leon, Matthew Wilkens The Scholarship Without Borders Journal, 2023
2023-05-28	More than Classification: A Unified Framework for Event Temporal Relation Extraction Quzhe Huang, Yutong Hu, Shengqi Zhu, Yansong Feng, Chang Liu, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
2023-05-27	Grounding Characters and Places in Narrative Text Sandeep Soni, Amanpreet Sihra, Elizabeth F. Evans, Matthew Wilkens, David Bamman Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
2023-05-22	A Pretrainer’s Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity S. Longpre, Gregory Yauney, Emily Reif, Katherine Lee, Adam Roberts, Barret Zoph, Denny Zhou, Jason Wei, Kevin Robinson, David M. Mimno, Daphne Ippolito North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
2023-01-23	Sensemaking About Contraceptive Methods Across Online Platforms LeAnn McDowall, Maria Antoniak, David M. Mimno International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023
2023-01-12	Blind Judgement: Agent-Based Supreme Court Modelling With GPT S. Hamilton arXiv.org, 2023
2023-01-01	MultiHATHI: A Complete Collection of Multilingual Prose Fiction in the HathiTrust Digital Library S. Hamilton, Andrew Piper Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023
2023-01-01	Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Segment the Chapters Herself Peiqi Sui, Lin Wang, S. Hamilton, Thorsten Ries, Kelvin Wong, Stephen Wong WNU, 2023
2023-01-01	Large Language Models and NER: better results with less work Rosamond Thalken, Matthew Wilkens, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2023
2023-01-01	The Chatbot and the Canon: Poetry Memorization in LLMs Lyra D'Souza, David Mimno Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, 2023
2022-10-13	The COVID That Wasn’t: Counterfactual Journalism Using GPT S. Hamilton, Andrew Piper LATECHCLFL, 2022
2022-10-07	Breaking BERT: Evaluating and Optimizing Sparsified Attention Siddhartha Brahma, Polina Zablotskaia, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2022
2022-10-05	Honest Students from Untrusted Teachers: Learning an Interpretable Question-Answering Pipeline from a Pretrained Language Model Jacob Eisenstein, D. Andor, Bernd Bohnet, Michael Collins, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2022
2022-10-01	Word Clouds in the Wild Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Maanya Goenka, E. Alexander 2022 IEEE 7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH), 2022
2022-04-17	Does Recommend-Revise Produce Reliable Annotations? An Analysis on Missing Instances in DocRED Quzhe Huang, Shibo Hao, Yuan Ye, Shengqi Zhu, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
2021-11-12	On-the-fly Rectification for Robust Large-Vocabulary Topic Inference Moontae Lee, Sungjun Cho, Kun Dong, David M. Mimno, D. Bindel International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021
2021-10-05	Open bibliographic data and the Italian National Scientific Qualification: Measuring coverage of academic fields Federica Bologna, A. Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi Quantitative Science Studies, 2021
2021-09-22	‘Tecnologica cosa’: Modeling Storyteller Personalities in Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’ A. Feder Cooper, Maria Antoniak, Christopher De Sa, Marilyn Migiel, David M. Mimno LATECHCLFL, 2021
2021-09-15	Comparing Text Representations: A Theory-Driven Approach Gregory Yauney, David M. Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
2021-07-09	Reply to Linton: Perspectival interference up close Jorge Morales, Axel Bax, C. Firestone Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
2021-06-30	Too isolated, too insular: American Literature and the World Matthew Wilkens Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2021
2021-06-10	Academics evaluating academics: a methodology to inform the review process on top of open citations Federica Bologna, A. Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi arXiv.org, 2021
2021-06-03	Exploring Distantly-Labeled Rationales in Neural Network Models Quzhe Huang, Shengqi Zhu, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
2021-06-03	Three Sentences Are All You Need: Local Path Enhanced Document Relation Extraction Quzhe Huang, Shengqi Zhu, Yansong Feng, Yuan Ye, Yuxuan Lai, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
2021-06-01	Separating the wheat from the chaff: A topic and keyword-based procedure for identifying research-relevant text✰ Alicia Eads, Alexandra Schofield, Fauna Mahootian, David M. Mimno, Rens Wilderom Poetics, 2021*
2021-05-18	Can we assess research using open scientific knowledge graphs? A case study within the Italian National Scientific Qualification Federica Bologna, A. Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi arXiv.org, 2021
2021-03-14	Do open citations give insights on the qualitative peer-review evaluation in research assessments? An analysis of the Italian National Scientific Qualification Federica Bologna, A. Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi Scientometrics, 2021
2021-01-01	Do open citations inform the qualitative peer-review evaluation in research assessments? An analysis of the Italian National Scientific Qualification Federica Bologna, A. Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi arXiv.org, 2021
2020-11-23	A Computational Approach to Urban Space in Science Fiction Federica Bologna
2020-10-30	Finding Domain-Specific Grounding in Noisy Visual-Textual Documents Gregory Yauney, Jack Hessel, David M. Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020
2020-10-23	Topic Modeling with Contextualized Word Representation Clusters Laure Thompson, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2020
2020-07-08	Like Two Pis in a Pod: Author Similarity Across Time in the Ancient Greek Corpus G. Storey, David M. Mimno
2020-06-12	Sustained representation of perspectival shape Jorge Morales, Axel Bax, C. Firestone Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
2020-02-05	Imagined Examples of Painful Experiences Provided by Chronic Low Back Pain Patients and Attributed a Pain Numerical Rating Score R. Griffin, Maria Antoniak, P. D. Mac, Vladimir N. Kramskiy, S. Waldman, David M. Mimno Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
2020-01-11	Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature Anastasia Salter, Marjorie C. Luesebrink, Dene Grigar, Leonardo Flores, Julian Ankney, Nicholas Binford, Kathryn Manis, Ricardo A. Ramirez, Troy Rowden, R. Snyder, Rosamond Thalken, N. Idris
2020-01-01	Correlation Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Token Distribution Analysis Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Parsing TEI XML Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken
2020-01-01	Measures of Lexical Variety Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Parsing and Analyzing Hamlet Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken
2020-01-01	Introduction to dplyr Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken
2020-01-01	Do It KWIC(er) (and Better) Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken
2020-01-01	Hapax Richness Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Text Analysis with R Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
2020-01-01	Part of Speech Tagging and Named Entity Recognition Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken
2020-01-01	Classification Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	R Basics Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Network Analysis Finds Shifts in the History of Modern Architecture Gregory Yauney, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2020
2020-01-01	Token Distribution and Regular Expressions Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken
2020-01-01	Do It KWIC Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Sentiment Analysis Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Prior-aware Composition Inference for Spectral Topic Models Moontae Lee, D. Bindel, David M. Mimno International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020
2020-01-01	Topic Modeling Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	First Foray into Text Analysis with R Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Replication and Computational Literary Studies Christof Schöch, K. Dalen-Oskam, Maria Antoniak, Fotis Jannidis, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2020
2020-01-01	Accessing and Comparing Word Frequency Data Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020
2020-01-01	Constructing and Analyzing Short Science Fiction at Scale Laure Thompson, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2020
2019-11-07	Narrative Paths and Negotiation of Power in Birth Stories Maria Antoniak, David M. Mimno, K. Levy Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019
2019-11-01	Practical Correlated Topic Modeling and Analysis via the Rectified Anchor Word Algorithm Moontae Lee, Sungjun Cho, D. Bindel, David M. Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019
2019-11-01	The Cultural Economies of Digital Books Matthew Wilkens American Literary History, 2019
2019-07-02	How We Do Things With Words: Analyzing Text as Social and Cultural Data D. Nguyen, Maria Liakata, S. Dedeo, Jacob Eisenstein, David Mimno, Rebekah Tromble, J. Winters Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2019
2019-07-01	Boosted negative sampling by quadratically constrained entropy maximization Taygun Kekeç, David M. Mimno, D. Tax Pattern Recognition Letters, 2019
2019-01-01	Computational Prediction of Elapsed Narrative Time Gregory Yauney, T. Underwood, David M. Mimno
2019-01-01	Unsupervised Discovery of Multimodal Links in Multi-image, Multi-sentence Documents Jack Hessel, Lillian Lee, David M. Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019