7 papers
AI-Assisted Curation of Conference Scholarship: Compiling, Structuring, and Analyzing Two Decades of Presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research
Brian Perron, Bryan Victor, Zia Qi
Purpose: This study developed a comprehensive database of presentation abstracts from the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference and examined patterns in res…
Reasoning Language Models for complex assessments tasks: Evaluating parental cooperation from child protection case reports
Dragan Stoll, Brian E. Perron, Zia Qi +3
Purpose: Reasoning language models (RLMs) have demonstrated significant advances in solving complex reasoning tasks. We examined their potential to assess parental cooperation duri…
Small Models Achieve Large Language Model Performance: Evaluating Reasoning-Enabled AI for Secure Child Welfare Research
Zia Qi, Brian E. Perron, Bryan G. Victor +2
Objective: This study develops a systematic benchmarking framework for testing whether language models can accurately identify constructs of interest in child welfare records. The…
Human services organizations and the responsible integration of AI: Considering ethics and contextualizing risk(s)
Brian E. Perron, Lauri Goldkind, Zia Qi +1
This paper examines the responsible integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in human services organizations (HSOs), proposing a nuanced framework for evaluating AI applications…
AI and Cultural Context: An Empirical Investigation of Large Language Models' Performance on Chinese Social Work Professional Standards
Zia Qi, Brian E. Perron, Miao Wang +3
Objective: This study examines how well leading Chinese and Western large language models understand and apply Chinese social work principles, focusing on their foundational knowle…
A Primer on Word Embeddings: AI Techniques for Text Analysis in Social Work
Brian E. Perron, Kelley A. Rivenburgh, Bryan G. Victor +2
Word embeddings represent a transformative technology for analyzing text data in social work research, offering sophisticated tools for understanding case notes, policy documents,…