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5 papers

cs.AI2026

To Nuke or Not to Nuke: LLMs' (Missing) Ethical Reasoning and Actions in a High-Stakes Decision-Making Simulation

John Chen, Sihan Cheng, Can Gurkan +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-horizon agents with decision-making capacities. While LLMs can show ethical competence on dilemmas such as trolley pr…

cs.CL2026

A Computational Method for Measuring "Open Codes" in Qualitative Analysis

John Chen, Alexandros Lotsos, Sihan Cheng +7

Qualitative analysis is critical to understanding human datasets in many social science disciplines. A central method in this process is inductive coding, where researchers identif…

cs.AI2026

CivBench: Progress-Based Evaluation for LLMs' Strategic Decision-Making in Civilization V

John Chen, Sihan Cheng, Can Gurkan +1

Evaluating strategic decision-making in LLM-based agents requires generative, competitive, and longitudinal environments, yet few benchmarks provide all three, and fewer still offe…

cs.AI2025

Vox Deorum: A Hybrid LLM Architecture for 4X / Grand Strategy Game AI -- Lessons from Civilization V

John Chen, Sihan Cheng, Can Gurkan +2

Large Language Models' capacity to reason in natural language makes them uniquely promising for 4X and grand strategy games, enabling more natural human-AI gameplay interactions su…

cs.CL2025

Processes Matter: How ML/GAI Approaches Could Support Open Qualitative Coding of Online Discourse Datasets

John Chen, Alexandros Lotsos, Grace Wang +4

Open coding, a key inductive step in qualitative research, discovers and constructs concepts from human datasets. However, capturing extensive and nuanced aspects or "coding moment…