David Bamman is a senior researcher in computational linguistics for the Perseus Project, focusing especially on natural language processing for Latin and Greek, including treebank construction, computational lexicography, morphological tagging and word sense disambiguation. David received a BA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Boston University. He is currently leading the development of the Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks and the Dynamic Lexicon Project.
Selected Publications
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Bamman, David, Alison Babeu, and Gregory Crane, "Transferring Structural Markup Across Translations Using Multilingual Alignment and Projection," in: Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2010). Winner, Best Paper Award.
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Bamman, David, Francesco Mambrini and Gregory Crane, "An Ownership Model of Annotation: The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank," in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT8) (Milan, Italy: 2009).
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Bamman, David, and Gregory Crane, "Computational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography," Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009).
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Bamman, David, Marco Passarotti and Gregory Crane, "A Case Study in Treebank Collaboration and Comparison: Accusativus cum Infinitivo and Subordination in Latin," Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 90 (2008).
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Bamman, David and Gregory Crane, "The Logic and Discovery of Textual Allusion," in: Proceedings of the 2008 LREC Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2008).
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Bamman, David and Gregory Crane, "Building a Dynamic Lexicon from a Digital Library," in: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008).
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Crane, Gregory, David Bamman, and Alison Babeu, "ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers," in: Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).
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Bamman, David, and Gregory Crane, "The Latin Dependency Treebank in a Cultural Heritage Digital Library," in: Proceedings of the 2007 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (2007), pp. 33-40.
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Bamman, David, and Gregory Crane, "The Design and Use of a Latin Dependency Treebank," in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2006) (Prague, Czech Republic: 2006), pp. 67-78.
Contact
David is currently involved in collaborative projects with researchers in the US, Italy and Germany on a variety of topics ranging from syntactic annotation to multilingual named entity analysis - please feel free to contact him concerning computational approaches to cultural heritage material and digital humanities research in general. Students and faculty interested in the production or analysis of quantitative data in Classical languages should also feel free to contact him.
