4 papers
Visual Orientalism in the AI Era: From West-East Binaries to English-Language Centrism
Zhilong Zhao, Yindi Liu
Text-to-image AI models systematically encode geopolitical bias through visual representation. Drawing on Said's Orientalism and framing theory, we introduce Visual Orientalism - t…
A Hierarchical Error Framework for Reliable Automated Coding in Communication Research: Applications to Health and Political Communication
Zhilong Zhao, Yindi Liu
Automated content analysis increasingly supports communication research, yet scaling manual coding into computational pipelines raises concerns about measurement reliability and va…
Automated Quality Assessment for LLM-Based Complex Qualitative Coding: A Confidence-Diversity Framework
Zhilong Zhao, Yindi Liu
Computational social science lacks a scalable and reliable mechanism to assure quality for AI-assisted qualitative coding when tasks demand domain expertise and long-text reasoning…
A Confidence-Diversity Framework for Calibrating AI Judgement in Accessible Qualitative Coding Tasks
Zhilong Zhao, Yindi Liu
LLMs enable qualitative coding at large scale, but assessing reliability remains challenging where human experts seldom agree. We investigate confidence-diversity calibration as a…