4 papers
Measuring Scalar Constructs in Social Science with LLMs
Hauke Licht, Rupak Sarkar, Patrick Y. Wu +4
Many constructs that characterize language, like its complexity or emotionality, have a naturally continuous semantic structure; a public speech is not just "simple" or "complex,"…
DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
Kai-Cheng Yang, Pranav Goel, Alexi Quintana-Mathé +5
Social media play a pivotal role in disseminating web content, particularly during elections, yet our understanding of the association between demographic factors and information s…
Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives
Pranav Goel, Jon Green, David Lazer +1
Much of the research quantifying volume and spread of online misinformation measures the construct at the source level, identifying a set of specific unreliable domains that accoun…
Natural Language Decompositions of Implicit Content Enable Better Text Representations
Alexander Hoyle, Rupak Sarkar, Pranav Goel +1
When people interpret text, they rely on inferences that go beyond the observed language itself. Inspired by this observation, we introduce a method for the analysis of text that t…