Culture and
Computation Lab
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.
Publications
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InvestigationWorlds: An Agentic Environment for Legal Investigation A. Sun, Andrew Benard, Sil Hamilton, Anna Teresita A. Marcelo, Yong Jae Kim, Carl-Leander Henneking, Run-Dong Hu, Yu-Hong Wang, David Mimno, Bi-Shan Yang, et al.
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CorporateBench: Large-Scale Q&A Benchmarking with Temporal Knowledge Bases Sil Hamilton, A. Sun, Óscar Romero, Carl-Leander Henneking, David Mimno, Bizheng Yang, I. Labutov
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The Plot Thins: Uniformity and Linearity in Literary Summaries Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno, Ross Kristensen-mclachlan
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Adopt $\neq$ Adapt: Longitudinal Analyses of LLM Conversations in the Wild Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Kiran Tomlinson
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Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories Sil Hamilton, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2026 |
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Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2026 |
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An All-in-One Attack: Microneedle-Delivered Bio-Hybrid Nanoagonist for Tumor Immunotherapy. Ang Li, X. Shan, Shengqi Zhu, Zheng Liu, Shuqi Guo, Jian Meng ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2026 |
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Attention Flows: Tracing LLM Conceptual Engagement via Story Summaries Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno, Ross Kristensen-mclachlan arXiv.org, 2026 |
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VERT: Reliable LLM Judges for Radiology Report Evaluation Federica Bologna, Jean-Philippe Corbeil, M. Wilkens, Asma Ben Abacha arXiv.org, 2026 |
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Are LLMs Overkill for Databases?: A Study on the Finiteness of SQL Yue Li, David Mimno, Unso Eun Seo Jo arXiv.org, 2026 |
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Fiction Flows: A Replication and Reinterpretation of Narrative Sequentiality Andrew Piper, Sil Hamilton, Haiqi Zhou, Federico Pianzola Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026 |
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When Do LLMs Need Human Experts? Evidence for Social Science from Jurisprudential Classification Caroline Cheng, Edward H. Stiglitz, David Mimno, Matthew Wilkens Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, 2026 |
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Adopt ≤ Adapt: Longitudinal Analyses of LLM Conversations in the Wild Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Kiran Tomlinson arXiv.org, 2026 |
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Zero-shot Methods for Historical Text Restoration Kiara M. H. Liu, M. Mueller, M. Wilkens Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2025 |
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Causal Effect of Character Gender on Readers’ Preferences Federica Bologna, Ian Lundberg, M. Wilkens Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference ..., 2025 |
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Castles, Battlefields, and Continents: A Dataset of Maps from Literature A. Bax, David Mimno, M. Wilkens Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2025 |
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CQA-Eval: Designing Reliable Evaluations of Multi-paragraph Clinical QA under Resource Constraints Federica Bologna, Tiffany S Pan, M. Wilkens, Yue Guo, Lucy Lu Wang
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NarraBench: A Comprehensive Framework for Narrative Benchmarking Sil Hamilton, Matthew Wilkens, Andrew Piper Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 |
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Agent Bain vs. Agent McKinsey: A New Text-to-SQL Benchmark for the Business Domain Yue Li, Ran Tao, Derek Hommel, Yusuf Denizay Dönder, Sungyong Chang, David Mimno, Unso Eun Seo Jo arXiv.org, 2025 |
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Show or Tell? Modeling the evolution of request-making in Human-LLM conversations Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 |
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Are You There God? Lightweight Narrative Annotation of Christian Fiction with LMs Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Brian Haggard, M. Ferrante, Rayhan Khanna, David Mimno Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2025 |
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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 |
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Too Long, Didn't Model: Decomposing LLM Long-Context Understanding With Novels Sil Hamilton, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, M. Ferrante, Matthew Wilkens, David Mimno LaTeCH-CLfL, 2025 |
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Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno CHI Extended Abstracts, 2025 |
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The Zero Body Problem: Probing LLM Use of Sensory Language Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025 |
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Tasks and Roles in Legal AI: Data Curation, Annotation, and Verification Allison Koenecke, Edward H. Stiglitz, David Mimno, Matthew Wilkens arXiv.org, 2025 |
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Endometriosis Communities on Reddit: Quantitative Analysis Federica Bologna, Rosamond Thalken, K. Pepin, M. Wilkens Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025 |
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Do Chinese models speak Chinese languages? A. Wang, Unso Eun Seo Jo, David Mimno Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2025 |
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Million Eyes on the “Robot Umps”: The Case for Studying Sports in HRI Through Baseball Waki Kamino, Andrea W. Wen-Yi, Dhruv Agarwal, Sil Hamilton, Eun Jeong Kang, Jieun Kim, Keigo Kusumegi, Pegah Moradi, Daniel Mwesigwa, Yan Tao, et al. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025 |
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Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research Lauren Klein, Meredith Martin, André Brock, Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh, Jessica M. Johnson, Lauren Tilton, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025 |
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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 |
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Lost in Space: Finding the Right Tokens for Structured Output Sil Hamilton, David Mimno IEEE Games Entertainment Media Conference, 2025 |
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Looking for the Inner Music: Probing LLMs' Understanding of Literary Style Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David M. Mimno Computational Humanities Research, 2025 |
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SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models Margaret Mitchell, Hamdan Al-Ali, Giuseppe Attanasio, Ioana Baldini, Miruna Clinciu, Jordan Clive, Pieter Delobelle, Manan Dey, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Timm Dill, et al. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 |
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Lost in Space: Optimizing Tokens for Grammar-Constrained Decoding Sil Hamilton, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2025 |
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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 |
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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 |
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SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION: Computational Frontiers for Conceptual Metaphor Theory Rebecca M. M. Hicke, R. Kristensen-Mclachlan Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, 2024 |
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Large Language Models in Qualitative Research: Uses, Tensions, and Intentions Hope Schroeder, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Casey Randazzo, David Mimno, S. Schoenebeck International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024 |
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Judicial self fashioning: Rhetorical performance in Supreme Court opinions Rosamond Thalken, David M. Mimno, Matthew Wilkens Discourse Studies, 2024 |
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Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp, R. Kristensen-Mclachlan Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2024 |
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K. Pepin, Federica Bologna, Rosamond Thalken, Matthew Wilkens Journal of minimally invasive gynecology, 2024 |
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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 |
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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 Lin, David Mimno arXiv.org, 2024 |
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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 |
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LLMs as Research Tools: Applications and Evaluations in HCI Data Work Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Hope Schroeder, Casey Randazzo, Jie Gao, Ziv Epstein, S. Perrault, David Mimno, Louise Barkhuus, Hanlin Li CHI Extended Abstracts, 2024 |
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Endometriosis Online Communities: A Quantitative Analysis Federica Bologna, MS Rosamond Thalken, K. Pepin, M. Wilkens medRxiv, 2024 |
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[Lions: 1] and [Tigers: 2] and [Bears: 3], Oh My! Literary Coreference Annotation with LLMs Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David M. Mimno LATECHCLFL, 2024 |
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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 |
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Large Language Models in Qualitative Research: Can We Do the Data Justice? Hope Schroeder, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Casey Randazzo, David Mimno, S. Schoenebeck arXiv.org, 2024 |
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Contextualized Topic Coherence Metrics Hamed Rahimi, David M. Mimno, Jacob Louis Hoover, Hubert Naacke, Camélia Constantin, Bernd Amann Findings, 2024 |
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Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 |
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Hyperpolyglot LLMs: Cross-Lingual Interpretability in Token Embeddings Andrea Wen-Yi Wang, David Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 |
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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 |
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Report of the 1st Workshop on Generative AI and Law A. F. Cooper, Katherine Lee, James Grimmelmann, Daphne Ippolito, Christopher Callison-Burch, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Miles Brundage, David Mimno, M. Z. Choksi, et al. Social Science Research Network, 2023 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Matthew Wilkens Orbis Litterarum, 2023 |
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Establishing Connectivity and Trust in High Schools During COVID-19 L. De Leon, Matthew Wilkens The Scholarship Without Borders Journal, 2023 |
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More than Classification: A Unified Framework for Event Temporal Relation Extraction Quzhe Huang, Yutong Hu, Shengqi Zhu, Yan-Song Feng, Chang Liu, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 |
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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 |
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S. Longpre, Gregory Yauney, Emily Reif, Katherine Lee, Adam Roberts, Barret Zoph, Denny Zhou, Jason Wei, Kevin Robinson, David M. Mimno, et al. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 |
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Sensemaking About Contraceptive Methods Across Online Platforms L. McDowall, Maria Antoniak, David M. Mimno International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023 |
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The Chatbot and the Canon: Poetry Memorization in LLMs Lyra D'Souza, David Mimno Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, 2023 |
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Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Segment the Chapters Herself Pei-Qi Sui, Lin Wang, S. Hamilton, Thorsten Ries, Kelvin Wong, Stephen Wong WNU, 2023 |
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MultiHATHI: A Complete Collection of Multilingual Prose Fiction in the HathiTrust Digital Library S. Hamilton, Andrew Piper Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 |
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Large Language Models and NER: better results with less work Rosamond Thalken, Matthew Wilkens, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2023 |
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The COVID That Wasn’t: Counterfactual Journalism Using GPT S. Hamilton, Andrew Piper LATECHCLFL, 2022 |
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Breaking BERT: Evaluating and Optimizing Sparsified Attention Siddhartha Brahma, Polina Zablotskaia, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2022 |
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Jacob Eisenstein, D. Andor, Bernd Bohnet, Michael Collins, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2022 |
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Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Maanya Goenka, E. Alexander 2022 IEEE 7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH), 2022 |
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Does Recommend-Revise Produce Reliable Annotations? An Analysis on Missing Instances in DocRED Quzhe Huang, Shi-Bo Hao, Yuan Ye, Shengqi Zhu, Yan-Song Feng, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 |
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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 |
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Federica Bologna, A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi Quantitative Science Studies, 2021 |
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‘Tecnologica cosa’: Modeling Storyteller Personalities in Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’ A. Feder Cooper, Maria Antoniak, Christopher Sa, Marilyn Migiel, David M. Mimno LATECHCLFL, 2021 |
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Comparing Text Representations: A Theory-Driven Approach Gregory Yauney, David M. Mimno Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021 |
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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 |
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Too isolated, too insular: American Literature and the World Matthew Wilkens Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2021 |
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Academics evaluating academics: a methodology to inform the review process on top of open citations Federica Bologna, A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi arXiv.org, 2021 |
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Three Sentences Are All You Need: Local Path Enhanced Document Relation Extraction Quzhe Huang, Shengqi Zhu, Yan-Song Feng, Yuan Ye, Yuxuan Lai, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 |
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Exploring Distantly-Labeled Rationales in Neural Network Models Quzhe Huang, Shengqi Zhu, Yan-Song Feng, Dongyan Zhao Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 |
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Alicia Eads, Alexandra Schofield, Fauna Mahootian, David M. Mimno, Rens Wilderom Poetics, 2021 |
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Federica Bologna, A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi arXiv.org, 2021 |
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Federica Bologna, A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi Scientometrics, 2021 |
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Ali Hrriyetoglu, Hristo Tanev, Vanni Zavarella, Osman Mutlu, Erdem Yrk, Aline Villavicencio, J. Piskorski, Tommaso Caselli, B. Raja, A. Chakravarthi, et al.
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Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Workflow for Natural Language Generation Heloisa Candello, Stevie Chancellor, S. Ernala, Mitchell A. Gordon, Huda Khayrallah, Geza Kovacs, Narges Mahyar, David Mimno, Swati Mishra, Carolyn P. Rosé, et al. HCINLP, 2021 |
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Federica Bologna, A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, Francesco Poggi arXiv.org, 2021 |
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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 |
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Topic Modeling with Contextualized Word Representation Clusters Laure Thompson, David M. Mimno arXiv.org, 2020 |
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Like Two Pis in a Pod: Author Similarity Across Time in the Ancient Greek Corpus G. Storey, David M. Mimno
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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 |
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R. Griffin, Maria Antoniak, P. Mac, Vladimir N. Kramskiy, S. Waldman, David M. Mimno Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 |
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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, et al.
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Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020 |
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Constructing and Analyzing Short Science Fiction at Scale Laure Thompson, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2020 |
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Network Analysis Finds Shifts in the History of Modern Architecture Gregory Yauney, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2020 |
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Replication and Computational Literary Studies Christof Schöch, K. Dalen-Oskam, Maria Antoniak, Fotis Jannidis, David M. Mimno Digital Humanities Conference, 2020 |
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Prior-aware Composition Inference for Spectral Topic Models Moontae Lee, D. Bindel, David M. Mimno International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020 |
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First Foray into Text Analysis with R Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020 |
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Accessing and Comparing Word Frequency Data Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Thalken Text Analysis with R, 2020 |
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Narrative Paths and Negotiation of Power in Birth Stories Maria Antoniak, David M. Mimno, K. Levy Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019 |
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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 |
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How We Do Things With Words: Analyzing Text as Social and Cultural Data Dong Nguyen, Maria Liakata, S. Dedeo, Jacob Eisenstein, David Mimno, Rebekah Tromble, J. Winters Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2019 |
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Boosted negative sampling by quadratically constrained entropy maximization Taygun Kekeç, David M. Mimno, D. Tax Pattern Recognition Letters, 2019 |
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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 |