Why do we say the things we do and what does our language say about us in return? The Blablablab develops new scientific methods to answer socially-impactful questions about human behavior from what we observe people say and do. Our work broadly intersects with computational social science, natural language processing, computational sociolinguistics, data mining, and social computing. Along the way, we release new software tools and datasets for the community to help reveal the social dimensions of language
The Blablablab is officially a part of the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) and is a member of the Computational Social Science group within UMSI. We widely collaborate on interdisciplinary projects with researchers and students in the Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics , the School of Public Health , the Center for the Study of Complex Systems , and the Michigan Institute for Data Science . But mostly, we work with amazing people doing socially-impactful work.
Some Blablablabers: (left-most) Leo Raabe, Jason Yan, Hong Chen, Aparna Anathasubramaniam, Jiaxin Pei, Agrima Seth, David Jurgens, Minje Choi, Kenan Alkiek.