naitian
@naitian.org
NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
Wheeeeee Text as Data is coming back, and will be in the Bay Area right before COLM! One-page extended abstract due on August 1 -- hope to see you all there!
Denis@dpeskoff.bsky.social · 3w agoDo you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org
In case you missed it, the GenAI for the World workshop (co-located w/ COLM) extended submissions until 6/30 AoE! We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers sites.google.com/view/genai4w...
If you count the first calendar we did as the beginning of ORB, which we do, then today is our one-year anniversary of being An Actual Thing! One full ORBIT around the sun!
a computer generated image of the earth and moon in orbit
ALT: a computer generated image of the earth and moon in orbit
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vibe coding is so good for taking my horrifying jupyter notebooks and converting them into a set of self-contained scripts that are more reproducible
Patrick Sui and I are hosting an #ICLR2026 social for anyone with background/interest in the humanities! Room 210, 12-1:30pm on Friday 24 April!! Humanities-adjacent, humanities-curious, everyone is welcome! Should be a fun group! :)
early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long-stan...
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Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak? We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!
my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:
Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions. richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...
ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!
We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊 Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
We were excited to host @naitian.org at today’s lab seminar for a talk on variation, semiotics, fashion, and style. A refreshing perspective at the intersection of sociolinguistics and NLP! #NLProc
“Position paper” is just a label to make some kinds of interdisciplinary theoretical work fit into the CS publishing schema.
Yanai Elazar@yanai.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn addition, when considering different subfields, we find striking differences in how we classify 'position' papers, leading to huge differences in how this policy affects different CS subfields.
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 7mo agoCOW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Showing this to everyone that I meet at a conference that thinks I’m an extrovert
Antonina Martynenko@tonyamart.bsky.social · 8mo agoA farewell card for #chr2025 people, safe travels everyone✨
Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century? anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Measuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs
anthology.ach.org
New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences
Overview [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...
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Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
Awesome, the Edinburgh HCRC map task corpus 30 years later without the insane "different maps" complication. Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/ via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
HCRC Map Task Corpus
groups.inf.ed.ac.uk
naitian@naitian.org · 8mo agoA couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n
This looks really interesting. Seems primarily targeted at cog-sci and/or linguistics research, with Portal 2 just the example problem-solving domain, but probably also of interest to game-studies and game-AI people.
naitian@naitian.org · 8mo agoA couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n
A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
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No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about... 📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social! If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
