Talks
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Promises of (Platform) Permanence: How People Die on Legacy.com
We scraped roughly 100,000 obituaries from Legacy.com, the largest obituary aggregator in the United States, and analyzed them using lexical methods and LLM-based occupation identification, interpreting the results through platform studies and archival theory.
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NLP in Archival Infrastructure
A review of uses of natural language processing in archives, and a discussion of the affordances of LLMs in historical narration, e.g. for archival description.
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Religious Rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record
We used a lexical model and a logistic regression-based classifier to estimate the prevalence of religious speech in Congress, and identified partisan patterns in references to the Bible via a neural embedding-based retrieval method.