5 papers
Perceive, Refine, Reason: A Calibrated Pipeline for Measuring Indicators in Strategic Visual Communication on Social Media
Weihong Qi, Chen Ling
Visual content shapes audience perception and opinion on social media, and computational social science increasingly relies on automated tools to analyze images at scale. Yet a mea…
XChoice: Explainable Evaluation of AI-Human Alignment in LLM-based Constrained Choice Decision Making
Weihong Qi, Fan Huang, Rasika Muralidharan +2
We present XChoice, an explainable framework for evaluating AI-human alignment in constrained decision making. Moving beyond outcome agreement such as accuracy and F1 score, XChoic…
Adapting Public Personas: A Multimodal Study of U.S. Legislators' Cross-Platform Social Media Strategies
Weihong Qi, Anushka Dave, Chen Ling
Current cross-platform social media analyses primarily focus on the textual features of posts, often lacking multimodal analysis due to past technical limitations. This study addre…
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of LLM-based Public Opinion Simulation: Evaluating Chinese and U.S. Models on Diverse Societies
Weihong Qi, Fan Huang, Jisun An +1
This study evaluates the ability of DeepSeek, an open-source large language model (LLM), to simulate public opinions in comparison to LLMs developed by major tech companies. By com…
Beyond Sentiment: Leveraging Topic Metrics for Political Stance Classification
Weihong Qi
Sentiment analysis, widely critiqued for capturing merely the overall tone of a corpus, falls short in accurately reflecting the latent structures and political stances within text…