David Bamman
Associate Professor
Applies natural language processing to questions in the humanities and social sciences, such as computational analysis of literature.
David Bamman's lab at UC Berkeley works on language & society. 19 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly ACL and Findings of ACL. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. 4 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 37%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 4
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 1
- 7 papers2024 · T1 3
- 4 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, Findings of ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Language & society3 papers
- computational analysis1 paper
- social sciences0 papers
- applies natural0 papers
- humanities0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
20255 papers
- ACL (T1)Culture is Not Trivia: Sociocultural Theory for Cultural NLP (opens in a new tab)
- CHRMeasuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs (opens in a new tab)
- Educational ResearcherOthering through War: Depiction of Asians/Asian Americans in U.S. History Textbooks from California and Texas (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Cultural Analytics 10.1Racial and Ethnic Representation in Literature Taught in US High Schools (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLTell, Don’t Show: Leveraging Language Models’ Abstractive Retellings to Model Literary Themes (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- ACL (T1)AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters (opens in a new tab)
- PNAS (T1)Measuring Diversity in Hollywood through the Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Film (opens in a new tab)
- CHROn Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics (opens in a new tab)
- CHROnce More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Computational Literary StudiesSmall Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Social Meme-ing: Measuring Linguistic Variation in Memes (opens in a new tab)
- CHRSubversive Characters and Stereotyping Readers: Characterizing Queer Relationalities with Dialogue-Based Relation Extraction (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- Findings of ACLDramatic Conversation Disentanglement (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Grounding Characters and Places in Narrative Text (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4 (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLWords as Gatekeepers: Measuring Discipline-specific Terms and Meanings in Scholarly Publications (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went4 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 1
Apply to UC BerkeleyFall 2027
UC Berkeley EECS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
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- GRE
- not required
- English
- TOEFL/IELTS (non-English-country degrees)
- Fee
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