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Kent K. Chang
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Kent K. Chang is a PhD student in the School of Information and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is advised by Prof. David Bamman, researching in natural language processing and cultural analytics.

:raw-html:`<a class="tiny ui twitter button" href="https://twitter.com/KentKChang">X (Twitter)</a><a class="tiny ui black button" href="https://github.com/kentchang/">Github</a><a class="tiny ui violet button" href="_static/general_cv.pdf">CV</a><a class="tiny ui blue button" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentkchang/">LinkedIn</a><code style="background-color: #fff; margin-left: 0.5rem; font-size: 0.9rem;">kentkc [at] berkeley.edu</code>`

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Before coming to Berkeley, Kent was a predoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (Department of Social and Decision Sciences); he holds a BA (English language and literature) from National Taiwan University and an MS (Digital Humanities) from University College London, and is the recipient of Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study. 

Kent's research uses natural language processing to understand and facilitate the process of meaning-making and social interaction in cultural texts, with particular interests in dialogue and narrative understanding. He looks to improve the performance of NLP methods on domains relevant to inquiry in the humanities and social sciences and to innovate new tasks within NLP that directly speak to the needs of these communities. With an interdisciplinary background, he seeks to leverage NLP as a method for literary, historical, and sociological inquiries, putting into synergy the nuance of critical theory and the affordance of neural-based representation learning. 

.. **Recent interests** (August 2022--present) :math:`\in` :math:`\mathrm{span}\bigl\{`\[dialogue understanding, self-supervised learning, multimodal NLP\]
.. :math:`^{\top}`, \[Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, John Searle\] 
.. :math:`^{\top}`, \[Oscar Wilde, David Hyde Pierce, Vince Gilligan\]
.. :math:`^{\top}\bigr\}`. 

Teaching
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* Graduate Student Instructor, "Applied Natural Language Processing" (:raw-html:`<span class="small-caps">info</span>` 256), UC Berkeley, Fall 2023.
* Graduate Student Instructor, "Natural Language Processing" (:raw-html:`<span class="small-caps">info</span>` 159/259), UC Berkeley, Spring 2023.
* Graduate Student Instructor, "Information Organization and Retrieval" (:raw-html:`<span class="small-caps">info</span>` 202), UC Berkeley, Fall 2022.

Publications
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* Kent K. Chang, Mackenzie Cramer, Sandeep Soni, David Bamman (forthcoming 2023), "Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4." EMNLP 2023. :raw-html:`<br /><a class="tiny ui primary basic button" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.00118.pdf">Preprint</a>`
* Kent K. Chang, Danica Chen, David Bamman (2023), "Dramatic Conversation Disentanglement." ACL 2023 Findings. :raw-html:`<br /><a class="tiny ui primary basic button" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.248/">ACL Anthology</a>`
* Kent K. Chang (2023), "The Queer Gap in Cultural Analytics." Book chapter (peer-reviewed) in *Debates in Digital Humanities 2023*, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein. University of Minnesota Press.  :raw-html:`<br /><a class="tiny ui primary basic button" href="https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~kentkchang/_static/chang-queer_gap.pdf">Preprint</a>`
* Michelle Moravec and Kent K. Chang (2021), "Feminist Bestsellers: A Digital History of 1970s Feminism." *Post45* × *Journal of Cultural Analytics* (special issue ed. Richard Jean So).
* Kent K. Chang and Simon DeDeo (2020), "Divergence and the Complexity of Difference in Text and Culture." *Journal of Cultural Analytics*. :raw-html:`<br /><a class="tiny ui primary basic button" href="https://culturalanalytics.org/article/17585-divergence-and-the-complexity-of-difference-in-text-and-culture">PDF</a><a class="tiny ui secondary basic button" href="https://github.com/kentchang/ca_divergence">Github repo</a>`  
* Kent Chang, Yuerong Hu, Wenyi Shang, Aniruddha Sharma, Shubhangi Singhal, Ted Underwood, Jessica Witte, Peizhen Wu (2020), "Book Reviews and the Consolidation of Genre." DH 2020. `http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/02q2-1v27 <http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/02q2-1v27>`_.

Most projects in progress are not listed here. To learn more, get in touch: :raw-html:`<code style="background-color: #fff;">kentkc [at] berkeley.edu</code>`; `@KentKChang <https://twitter.com/KentKChang>`_.

.. Cameo Appearances
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.. * Scott Viteri and Simon DeDeo, "Epistemic phase transitions in mathematical proofs." *Cognition* Volume 225 (August 2022), 105120. `https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105120 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105120>`_.
.. * Anna Shechtman, "Command of Media’s Metaphors." *Critical Inquiry* Volume 47, Number 4 (Summer 2021): 644–674. `https://doi.org/10.1086/714512 <https://doi.org/10.1086/714512>`_.
.. * Anna Shechtman, "The Medium Concept." *Representations* (2020) 150 (1): 61–90. `https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2020.150.1.61 <https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2020.150.1.61>`_.



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