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I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, where I am advised by David Mimno and help maintain the AI for Humanists site. My research interests lie in Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. Specifically, I explore how large language models (LLMs) may be applied to the study of literary texts, with a dual interest in developing research methods and tools for humanities scholars and using literary texts as challenging test cases with which to explore the real-world capabilities of LLMs. In the summer of 2024 I worked as a research assistant for Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan at the Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University.

In 2022, I graduated from Carleton College with a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science and English and a minor in Digital Arts and Humanities. During this time I was advised by Eric Alexander and George Shuffelton. I also participated in the SUPERB REU at UC Berkeley in the summer of 2021, where I was advised by Sarah Chasins and Aditya Parameswaran.

Please feel free to reach out to me by email if you have any questions!


Publications
Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp, and Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
Preprint
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SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION: Computational Frontiers for Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Rebecca M. M. Hicke and Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
CHR 2024
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Context is Key(NMF): Modelling Topical Information Dynamics in Chinese Diaspora Media
Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Márton Kardos, and Mette Thunø
CHR 2024
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[Lions: 1] and [Tigers: 2] and [Bears: 3], Oh My! Literary Coreference Annotation with LLMs
Rebecca M. M. Hicke and David Mimno
LaTeCH-CLfL 2024
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T5 meets Tybalt: Author Attribution in Early Modern English Drama Using Large Language Models
Rebecca M. M. Hicke and David Mimno
CHR 2023
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'Let every word weight heavy of her worth': Examining How Women Enact Power in Shakespeare's Comedies through Interactive Speech Pattern Visualizations
Rebecca M. M. Hicke and David Mimno
De Gruyter's Computational Drama Analysis: Reflecting Methods and Interpretations
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Word Clouds in the Wild
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Maanya Goenka, and Eric Alexander
Vis4DH 2022
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