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Spring 2025

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Reading and annotating novels (beyond English) for NLP

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

LitBank an annotated dataset of fiction to support tasks in natural language processing and the computational humanities. While it currently exists for English, we'll be branching out to create similar resources for other languages as well (including Spanish, Japanese, German and other languages). The primary research will involve carrying out...

 Engineering, Design & Technologies   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

Web-based framework for rich annotation interfaces

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

In machine learning, manual data annotation is often required for training or evaluation. While there are a number of annotation tools available, most are focused on specific tasks or annotation formats, and often do not work well with multiple modalities (e.g., text and video). In this project, you will contribute...

 Engineering, Design & Technologies   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

Annotating datasets for the computational analysis of film

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Methods in computer vision have reached a level of maturity that we can now develop computational instruments to measure a wide range of phenomena in film -- which actors are present in frame, the poses they have with respect to each other, the boundaries between shots -- which opens the door to...

 Engineering, Design & Technologies   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

Computational project in cultural analytics/computational social science

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This URAP position is a placeholder for mentorship of a project of your design. If you are an advanced student in CS, data science, or another discipline with a strong computational background and have a topic of interest in the space of cultural analytics or computational social science, feel free...

 Engineering, Design & Technologies   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

Machine Learning Research Assistant for Behavioral Science and Finance Studies

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The project aims to bridge machine learning with behavioral science and finance, creating predictive models that offer insights into human interactions and startup success. This research is divided into two distinct but interconnected studies: Team Performance Prediction in Behavioral Science: In this study, we will analyze team dynamics by recording...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

Field and Lab Experiment Research Assistant in Behavioral Science

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on designing and launching behavioral experiments to understand decision-making and social behavior in various contexts, including social media, taxes, and online dating. By setting up controlled field and lab studies, the research team aims to capture real-world behavioral data that can provide insights into how...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

Undergraduate Research Assistant in Behavioral Economics and Cultural Psychology

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project investigates how cultural factors influence individual motivation, focusing on a field experiment conducted in Kenya. By examining how local cultural values, beliefs, and social norms impact motivation, the study aims to provide deeper insights into the relationship between culture and economic behaviors. The research assistant will support the...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

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