2 papers
cs.CL2025
What is a protest anyway? Codebook conceptualization is still a first-order concern in LLM-era classification
Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith
Generative large language models (LLMs) are now used extensively for text classification in computational social science (CSS). In this work, focus on the steps before and after LL…
cs.CL2025
Codebook LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as Measurement Tools for Political Science Concepts
Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith
Codebooks -- documents that operationalize concepts and outline annotation procedures -- are used almost universally by social scientists when coding political texts. To code these…