David Bamman

David Bamman is an assistant professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he works on applying natural language processing and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. His research often involves adding linguistic structure (e.g., syntax, semantics, coreference) to statistical models of text, and focuses on improving NLP for a variety of languages and domains (such as literary text and social media). Before Berkeley, he received his PhD in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (LTI).

Education

• 2015, Ph.D., Computer Science (Language Technologies Institute), Carnegie Mellon University
• 2006, M.A., Applied Linguistics, Boston University
• 1998, B.A., Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

• Amazon Research Award, 2017