6 papers
Are You There God? Lightweight Narrative Annotation of Christian Fiction with LMs
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Brian W. Haggard, Mia Ferrante +2
In addition to its more widely studied cultural movements, American Evangelicalism has a well-developed but less externally visible literary side. Christian Fiction, however, has b…
Too Long, Didn't Model: Decomposing LLM Long-Context Understanding With Novels
Sil Hamilton, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Matthew Wilkens +1
Although the context length of large language models (LLMs) has increased to millions of tokens, evaluating their effectiveness beyond needle-in-a-haystack approaches has proven di…
The Zero Body Problem: Probing LLM Use of Sensory Language
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno
Sensory language expresses embodied experiences ranging from taste and sound to excitement and stomachache. This language is of interest to scholars from a wide range of domains in…
Tasks and Roles in Legal AI: Data Curation, Annotation, and Verification
Allison Koenecke, Jed Stiglitz, David Mimno +1
The application of AI tools to the legal field feels natural: large legal document collections could be used with specialized AI to improve workflow efficiency for lawyers and amel…
A City of Millions: Mapping Literary Social Networks At Scale
Sil Hamilton, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David Mimno +1
We release 70,509 high-quality social networks extracted from multilingual fiction and nonfiction narratives. We additionally provide metadata for 30,000 of these texts (73\%…
Lost in Space: Finding the Right Tokens for Structured Output
Sil Hamilton, David Mimno
General-purpose language models are trained to produce varied natural language outputs, but for some tasks, like annotation or classification, we need more specific output formats.…