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cs.CL2025
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,"…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2024
Improving the TENOR of Labeling: Re-evaluating Topic Models for Content Analysis
Zongxia Li, Andrew Mao, Daniel Stephens +5
Topic models are a popular tool for understanding text collections, but their evaluation has been a point of contention. Automated evaluation metrics such as coherence are often us…