Nanne van Noord

@nanne.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Multimedia at University of Amsterdam. http://nanne.github.io

We're looking for a new colleague at @amlab.bsky.social: Assistant Professor in AI for Science 🔬🤖 World-class ML research, Amsterdam's thriving AI ecosystem (ELLIS, startups, big tech), and some of the best academic labor conditions in Europe ❤️ Deadline: May 30 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in AI for Science (AI4Science)

<p><span>Are you passionate about advancing Machine Learning by integrating insights from the natural sciences? Are you eager to bridge the 3rd (<em><span>computational</span></em>) and 4th (<em><span...

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This paper on identifying prompted artist names from generated images is such a fun and creative take on data attribution arxiv.org/abs/2507.18633 Wonder if it would do something meaningful for analysing artistic influence for human-made art 🤔

Identifying Prompted Artist Names from Generated Images

A common and controversial use of text-to-image models is to generate pictures by explicitly naming artists, such as "in the style of Greg Rutkowski". We introduce a benchmark for prompted-artist reco...

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This paper is 💯 Generally, I have the impression NLP does better at this than CV - but clearly both fields should push studying culture beyond just looking at national identities

naitian@naitian.org · last yr.

I'm thrilled to be doing an oral presentation on "Culture is not Trivia" at #ACL2025 next Wednesday 7/30, as well as participating in the human-centered NLP panel afterwards! (thanks also @lauraknelson.bsky.social for the shoutout in her #ic2s2 keynote today!) aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

A poster for "Culture is not Trivia: sociocultural theory for cultural NLP" which takes the form of a flow-chart. The central question, and the starting point of the flow chart, is "What is culture in cultural NLP?"

An arrow is labeled "wait, so what's cultural NLP?" This leads to a block explaining that the goals of cultural NLP are described in section 2 of the paper. They include inclusivity, depth, discerning, and adaptiveness.

That leads to an arrow that says "that sounds great!". But there are recurring challenges in this kind of work! Section 3 surveys some of these: a discomfort around the proxies being chosen, a lack of coverage, and a lack of dynamicity.

That in turn leads to an arrow labeled "Hm, sounds like we need to figure out..." and it leads back to the main question: "What is culture in cultural NLP?"

A final arrow extends below this block: "Well, who's to say, really?"

This points to sociocultural linguistics. Section 4 explores how other disciplines, like sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse analysis have faced similar challenges in the past. Section 4.2 gives an overview of sociocultural linguistics, which is a set of principles tying together some convergent themes: emergence, positionality, indexicality, relationality, and partialness.

One arrow extends from this asking, "what's that have to do with cultural NLP?" Section 5 gives a case study of how indexicality clarifies how to think about stereotypies in the context of mining cultual knowledge from the web.

Another arrow says "How can I build safe NLP systems?" Section 6.2 explores how localization can serve as a useful model from building culturally aware technologies because it forces developers to define culture explicitly and tractably.

Finally, an arrow asks "how can I study culture with NLP methods?" Section 6.1 lays out theoretically motivated directions for future empirical and theoretical work in computationally modeling culture.

📣 Call for papers - 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 & 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 📣 Working on topics like creative practices & work, governance, regulation, responsibility in relation to GenAI? Consider submitting your work. All details below 👇 📅 On 17 & 18 December 2025 📍 Amsterdam, NL Please share 🙏 rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat...

Call for Papers: GenAI & Creative Practices - Responsible Digital Transformations

Conference at the University of Amsterdam, 17 & 18 December 2025

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The PhD vacancy closes at the end of this week, and the postdoc vacancy next week - if you're interested or have questions don't hesitate to contact me!

Nanne van Noord@nanne.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc! 📣 The PhD is on learning from feedback for bias analysis in cultural collections, more info at: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... The postdoc is on gender representation in generative AI and artistic potentials, more info at: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

If you are at #BMVC2024 , I will give a talk (remotely) at the ANIMA 2024 interdisciplinary workshop on "non-invasive human motion characterization". 👉 Room M2. Thursday at 14:00++ (UK). 👉 Talk title: "Towards 3D Perception and Synthesis of Humans in Interaction".

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Leaving Glasgow earlier due to rescheduled flight (storm Conall) - #BMVC2024 was fun, although felt like it was a bit focused on certain topics. Glasgow is lovely, and Kelvingrove museum is definitely worth a visit (not just because its free 😅)