4 papers
Characterizing Language Use in a Collaborative Situated Game
Nicholas Tomlin, Naitian Zhou, Eve Fleisig +10
Cooperative video games, where multiple participants must coordinate by communicating and reasoning under uncertainty in complex environments, yield a rich source of language data.…
Culture is Not Trivia: Sociocultural Theory for Cultural NLP
Naitian Zhou, David Bamman, Isaac L. Bleaman
The field of cultural NLP has recently experienced rapid growth, driven by a pressing need to ensure that language technologies are effective and safe across a pluralistic user bas…
Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film
Naitian Zhou, David Bamman
Narrative film is a composition of writing, cinematography, editing, and performance. While much computational work has focused on the writing or visual style in film, we conduct i…
On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics
David Bamman, Kent K. Chang, Li Lucy +1
In this work, we survey the way in which classification is used as a sensemaking practice in cultural analytics, and assess where large language models can fit into this landscape.…