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Spring 2026

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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

Measuring suspense in fiction

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

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

In this project, we'll be exploring the techniques that fiction uses to evoke a sense of suspense in readers and to represent suspense experienced by its characters, and measure the degree to which computational models are able to capture that degree of uncertainty in what is going to unfold in...

 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

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