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Teagan Johnson

@teagrjohnson.bsky.social
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PhD student @ CU Boulder studying NLP and cultural analytics johnsont4.github.io

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
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CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Advait @ COLM @advaitdeshmukh.com · 10/09/2026
1/7 In 1941, Borges imagined an impossible novel that follows all narrative branches at once. Today, we can observe chatbot users exploring narrative possibilities as they repeatedly edit story prompts. In our COLM 2026 paper, we studied this branching exploration via the WildChat dataset. 🧵
Paraphrased edit trees from the dataset
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’m on my way to my first #IC2S2! 🌧️ I’ll be supporting presentations about computational narrative analysis by my students and mentees @teagrjohnson.bsky.social and @umagunturi1.bsky.social. If you’re interested in storytelling, pretraining data, social media, or language models, come talk to us!
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are in a crisis for the #EMNLP2026 round of ARR. AC desk rejects and fewer reviews per paper seem necessary to me.
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Sil Hamilton @srhm.ca · 03/07/2026
Attending #ACL? Come join us at NLP4DH 2026 on Saturday from 10am to 5pm! Great selection of papers from across the DH & NLP spectrum this year. Schedule: www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2026/...
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NLP4DH 2026 Schedule
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Boulder NLP @bouldernlp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Boulder NLP has 19 papers accepted to #ACL2026 across the main conference, findings and workshops! 🚀 We'll be presenting work on morphology, machine translation, narratives, low-resource languages, CSS, HCI, LLMs, fairness/bias, and more. See you in San Diego! 🌊 ☀️ 🌮
List of main conference papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.List of main conference and findings papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.List of findings and workshop papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.List of workshop papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What are people really doing with chatbots? 👀 Turns out that a lot of them are writing/reading various kinds of fiction, and in particular, they're generating a ton of erotica! What does this mean for the future of reading? Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748 Web Explorer: ai-fiction-wild.com
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Also check out the Huggingface page to test out the Agency and Setting elements of NarraBERT! You can enter any text you'd like and it will return the feature values across the 9 agency+setting dimensions: huggingface.co/spaces/teagr...
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Narrabert - a Hugging Face Space by teagrjohnson
Try out the setting and agency NarraBERT model!
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
6/ Paper, dataset, and models here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.19468 huggingface.co/collections/... github.com/johnsont4/na...
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Characterizing Narrative Content in Web-scale LLM Pretraining Data
The narrative composition of web-scale LLM pretraining corpora remains largely unexplored even though narrative is a fundamental mode of human communication. We present the first fine-grained study of...
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
5/ And variation within a source is large, so source-level labels are too coarse to capture it. Upweighting a "narrative" source like Reddit boosts interiority while starving the model of storyworld texture and events. Curation choices have narrative consequences current pipelines don't measure.
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
4/ The headline: sources and topics have distinct narrative fingerprints. Reddit is dense with interiority but low on conflict while “Crime & Law” texts are the reverse. No single source covers the whole narrative spectrum, not even books!
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
3/ To do this at scale we built NarraBert, a RoBERTa-based model validated against human and LLM annotations, and released NarraDolma: ~2.9M passages across ~785K Dolma documents, each scored on all 12 narrative dimensions.
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
2/ Narrative isn't binary. Drawing on narrative theory, we treat narrativity as a continuous, multidimensional property and score text on 12 dimensions across agency, setting, and eventful features.
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
1/ LLMs learn narrative from their pretraining data but what narrative content is actually in there? It turns out narrative is wildly unevenly distributed across sources and topics. New preprint with @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social:
This image depicts the proportion of each Dolma category in the top quartile for the first three principal components.
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Please consider submitting feedback here: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote... You can use the template message or customize it. It takes less than 1 minute to submit. You can learn more from this recent NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
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Congress: Protect NCAR and Climate Research
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR.) Act now to protect weather and climate research and help stop...
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
As you may be aware, the Trump administration is planning to dismantle NCAR. I can't say enough about how pivotal NCAR is to worldwide public safety, and also to the mentorship of future scientists. Today is the NSF-imposed deadline for submitting public feedback to congresspeople (see link below).
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...
Federal agents with weapons drawn, moments before murdering American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis at the dawn of 2026.
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