The AI for Humanists team regularly leads workshops that help introduce researchers to large language models.

The following lists our workshops in order of most to least recent.

Date Venue Tutorial Leader(s) Relevant Links
December 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities “Artificial Intelligence: An Overview” David Mimno, Melanie Walsh, and Matt Wilkens * Slides
November 2023 Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington “Large Language Models for Humanists: A Hands-On Introduction” Melanie Walsh and Maria Antoniak * Slides
June 2023 Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) Conference “A Hands-On Introduction to Large Language Models for FAccT Researchers” Maria Antoniak, David Mimno, Luca Soldaini, Melanie Walsh * Slides
July 2022 Bell Labs Seminars BERT for Social Scientists and Humanists Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh * Slides
June 2022 International Conference for Web and Social Media (ICWSM) BERT for Social Sciences and Humanities Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh * Slides
* Code (Word Similarity)
* Code (Classification)
December 2021 NLP+CSS Tutorials BERT for Computational Social Scientists Maria Antoniak * Slides
* Code
* Video
June 2021 BERT for Humanists BERT for Humanists Virtual Workshop Maria Antoniak, David Mimno, Melanie Walsh * Workshop Agenda

Example Workshop Citation

Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh, David Mimno, Matthew Wilkens. BERT for Social Sciences and Humanities. International Conference for Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2022. http://www.aiforhumanists.org/.