Publications

Measuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs

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David Bamman, Sabrina Baur, Anna Ho, Tom McEnaney, Mackenzie Cramer

We analyze the degree of narrativity present throughout popular and prestigious English song lyrics across 1960-2024. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities.

Multimodal Conversation Structure Understanding

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Kent K. Chang, Anna Ho, Ti Ti Nguyen, Yilin Yuan, David Bamman, Mackenzie Cramer

We introduce a suite of tasks focused on conversational role attribution (speaker, addressees, side-participants) and conversation threading (utterance linking and clustering), drawing on conversation analysis and sociolinguistics. arXiv preprint.

Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4

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Kent K. Chang, Sandeep Soni, David Bamman, Mackenzie Cramer

In this work, we carry out a data archaeology to infer books that are known to ChatGPT and GPT-4 using a name cloze membership inference query. arXiv preprint.