David Smith
@dasmiq.bsky.social
Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Natural language processing, digital humanities, OCR, computational bibliography, and computational social sciences. Artificial intelligence is an archival science.
Reposted by David Smith
We present alongside the paper:
1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-...
2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data...
3/7
1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-...
2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data...
3/7
GitHub - Living-with-machines/newswords: Code for the counts data derived from historical newspapers
Code for the counts data derived from historical newspapers - Living-with-machines/newswords
github.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We present alongside the paper:
1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-...
2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data...
3/7
1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-...
2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data...
3/7
Reposted by David Smith
All 4 positions are open rank & all could result in multiple hires. Folks from the DH/book history/bibliography worlds might look especially at the "Information, Culture, & Society" & open information sciences positions to see if anything resonates—happy to offer what insight I can
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
All 4 positions are open rank & all could result in multiple hires. Folks from the DH/book history/bibliography worlds might look especially at the "Information, Culture, & Society" & open information sciences positions to see if anything resonates—happy to offer what insight I can
Reposted by David Smith
This was joint work with @abertsch.bsky.social, Maria-Emil Deal, and @strubell.bsky.social
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20926
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/fic...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20926
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/fic...
FicSim: A Dataset for Multi-Faceted Semantic Similarity in Long-Form Fiction
As language models become capable of processing increasingly long and complex texts, there has been growing interest in their application within computational literary studies. However, evaluating the...
arxiv.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This was joint work with @abertsch.bsky.social, Maria-Emil Deal, and @strubell.bsky.social
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20926
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/fic...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20926
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/fic...
Reposted by David Smith
This is happening a little, but only a little. Higher ed is a napping giant, of sorts, relatively trusted, with high approval, with very well cultivated networks with latent possibilities for mobilization.
October 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is happening a little, but only a little. Higher ed is a napping giant, of sorts, relatively trusted, with high approval, with very well cultivated networks with latent possibilities for mobilization.
Reposted by David Smith
The possibility is for universities to reach out to explain how the current moment is undermining their ability to achieve these essential values, to mobilize people's outreach to elected officials, & to do this in a way that is coordinated across institutions.
October 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The possibility is for universities to reach out to explain how the current moment is undermining their ability to achieve these essential values, to mobilize people's outreach to elected officials, & to do this in a way that is coordinated across institutions.
Reposted by David Smith
Large majorities see universities/higher ed as important to things that they value (the economy, science, health), & substantial numbers indicate a willingness to be mobilized to support universities that they have a connection to.
October 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Large majorities see universities/higher ed as important to things that they value (the economy, science, health), & substantial numbers indicate a willingness to be mobilized to support universities that they have a connection to.