What can surveys miss when respondents choose the same answer option? In this pre-print, we argue that public opinion research needs not only to know where respondents stand, but how they think. AI Conversational Interviewing is one way to make that observable at scale

🚨 Final Call for Papers: CPSS @ #KONVENS2026 🚨 Join us in Hamburg on September 14 (14.00-17.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00) to share your research at the intersection of NLP and social/political science. ⏳ Deadline: July 3, 2026 (23:59 CET) 🌐 sites.google.com/view/cpss202... #CompSocSci #NLP #CFP (1/3)

CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS

This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...

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📣 Deadline approaching: July 3. The next round of the "Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences" workshop takes place in Hamburg ⚓️(w/ KONVENS) on September 14-15. With just a couple of weeks left, we're excited to see what you'll send our way ⬇️ sites.google.com/view/cpss202...

CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS

This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...

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Christopher Klamm 🏔️@cklamm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

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Christopher Klamm 🏔️@cklamm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️

Nicolai Berk@nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very excited for the first session of our TADA spring speaker series on LLMs in survey research! **Telephone Surveys Meet Conversational AI** With Max Lang Tuesday, 18 March 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online Sign up to our newsletter for more info or send me a DM: tada.cool

What a great initiative and research program 👩🏽‍🔬 by the Oxford Computational Political Science Group this year, and I am more than happy to be part of it and contribute to CPS in this setting. Check out the ongoing projects www.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-compu.... A lot to come 🚀

✨ We (w/ Bastián González-Bustamante & Steffen Eckhard) are excited to announce a special issue on “From Appendix to Spotlight: Validation Standards in Text-as-Data Political Science" in PS: Political Science & Politics. We’d love to see many of you submit. 🗓 Nov 1, 2026 apsanet.org/publications...

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!

CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you! It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars. We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!

🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset". If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.

Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series! This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue. If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool

Mark your calendars! 🚨 We look forward to @cc-tp.bsky.social joining us for the last talk before the ☀️ break! Next Wednesday, May 28, at 17:00 (CEST) she will talk about detecting gender biased norms in political speech. More details on the #TaDa Speaker Series & how to join the talk ⬇️

Verena Kunz@verenakunz.bsky.social · last yr.

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

🚨 Just a month until the CPSS deadline (June 13, AoE). Super excited for the upcoming round and can’t wait to see your submissions ✨

Gabriella Lapesa@gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember the deadline for the CPSS (Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences) #KONVENS2025 is approaching! And also: besides archival submissions which will appear in the ACL anthology, we also have ...

Deadline extension! By the 10th of May submit an abstract and join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods" workshop at #ICWSM

Christopher Klamm 🏔️@cklamm.bsky.social · last yr.

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

🕔 We're excited to start in just 30 minutes (5pm Berlin time). Come join us for a fascinating talk by @taniseceron.bsky.social on "Evaluating Political Bias: Insights into Robustness and Multilinguality". We can’t wait to see many of you there ⬇️

Verena Kunz@verenakunz.bsky.social · last yr.

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!

MethodsNET@methodsnet.bsky.social · last yr.

Registrations NOW OPEN for MethodsNET Summer School 2025 with CEU! @weareceu.bsky.social 📍 Vienna, Austria | June 30 – July 18, 2025 Hands-on research methods training in case-based, quantitative, big data & more! 15% Early Bird discount available until March 11! Register now: bit.ly/4gLbv9V

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

Christopher Klamm 🏔️@cklamm.bsky.social · last yr.

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

Fantastic first day at #COMPTEXT2025. Really enjoyed spreading the word about efficient LLMs 🌱✨🦙 in our workshop (w/ Julia Romberg) today. Many thanks to everyone who joined us 💚. Excited for more packed conference days ahead 🚀

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · last yr.

Afternoon workshops at #COMPTEXT2025 wrapped up with in-depth sessions on narrative analysis, researcher access under the DSA, concept measurement, and efficient LLM training. Thanks to @mariaa.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @haukelicht.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and all participants!

🔜 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 will also be in Albuquerque at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 (@NAACL) next week. If you’re around, say hi to Quirin who will be there and check out our latest work (May 4, 09:00-17:30) ⬇️

Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · last yr.

AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824 Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨ 🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below

AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824 Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨ 🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below

Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Structured surveys can collect comparable (but rigid) data from thousands of respondents Semi-structured interviews foster depth but only in small samples due to the human interviewer **AI Conversational Interviewing** may overcome this scale/depth trade-off arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824

🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series (tada.cool) this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), we have the pleasure of welcoming @taniseceron.bsky.social to share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details ⬇️

Verena Kunz@verenakunz.bsky.social · last yr.

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

The TADA Speaker Series is thrilled to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk to present his research on causal claims in economics! 🎙 Prashant Garg: Causal Claims in Economics 📅 March 19, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time 🔗 Subscribe for details: tada.cool See you next week!

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The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics