2 papers
cs.CL2026
When Better Codebooks Are Not Enough: Predictive Performance and Behavioral Reliability in LLM Political Event Coding
Zixian He, Bharath Raahul Murugesan, Patrick Brandt +1
High accuracy does not necessarily make an LLM a faithful coder. This issue matters because many social-science studies rely on expert-written codebooks to turn text into structure…
cs.CL2024
ConfliBERT: A Language Model for Political Conflict
Patrick T. Brandt, Sultan Alsarra, Vito J. D`Orazio +5
Conflict scholars have used rule-based approaches to extract information about political violence from news reports and texts. Recent Natural Language Processing developments move…