David Mimno
dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
I'm telling you, Binghamton: tech hub
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Are the non-ProQuest EEBO images comprehensive? Could they be OCRed?
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I've also come to see the opening explicit statement of "here's what I think you're saying" as critical as well. Authors really benefit from knowing whether what they thought they said is what people actually read.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Most of the time, Computational Humanities applies NLP tools designed for other contexts. In Chap 3, @dbamman.bsky.social explores what happens when we design NLP for humanities from the start:

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Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Stop trying to make smart glasses happen. It’s not going to happen.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I see this as mostly determined by choice of advisor? I can predict accurately how a paper will land at *ACL, but we needed lots of advice from friends to have any chance at CSCW.
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And yes, this is my commute
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In Chap 2, Mark Algee-Hewitt urges us to think of interpretation as a recurring cycle, where we are challenged by tools to reimagine our objects of study.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
>>> [ord(c) for c in "Al"]
[65, 108]

once again a task that can be solved trivially with one line of python
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM