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most citedpathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy

14 citations · 14 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Exploring Sparse Autoencoders in Text-Based Causal Confounding Adjustment

Mian Zhong, Katherine A. Keith, Anjalie Field

In many settings, studying causal questions based on text data requires adjusting for confounding information within texts. Yet there is a tradeoff in constructing text representat…

cs.IR2026

The Effect of Document Selection on Query-focused Text Analysis

Sandesh S Rangreji, Mian Zhong, Anjalie Field

Analyses of document collections often require selecting what data to analyze, as not all documents are relevant to a particular research question and computational constraints pre…

cs.CL2026

What Makes a Good Response? An Empirical Analysis of Quality in Qualitative Interviews

Jonathan Ivey, Anjalie Field, Ziang Xiao

Qualitative interviews provide essential insights into human experiences when they elicit high-quality responses. While qualitative and NLP researchers have proposed various measur…

cs.CL2025

HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs

Mian Zhong, Pristina Wang, Anjalie Field

Despite numerous applications for fine-grained corpus analysis, researchers continue to rely on manual labeling, which does not scale, or statistical tools like topic modeling, whi…

cs.CL2025

From Queries to Criteria: Understanding How Astronomers Evaluate LLMs

Alina Hyk, Kiera McCormick, Mian Zhong +7

There is growing interest in leveraging LLMs to aid in astronomy and other scientific research, but benchmarks for LLM evaluation in general have not kept pace with the increasingl…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 14 cited

pathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy

Kartheik G. Iyer, Mikaeel Yunus, Charles O'Neill +27

The exponential growth of astronomical literature poses significant challenges for researchers navigating and synthesizing general insights or even domain-specific knowledge. We pr…

astro-ph.IM2024

Designing an Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models in Astronomy Research

John F. Wu, Alina Hyk, Kiera McCormick +15

Large Language Models (LLMs) are shifting how scientific research is done. It is imperative to understand how researchers interact with these models and how scientific sub-communit…