Text as Data 2026

Discussant: Diag Davenport

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   Debiased Inference for AI-Generated Data without Gold-Standard Labels: Identification via Multiple Imperfect Measurements
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   Multi-Perspective LLM Annotations for Valid Analyses in Subjective Tasks
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   The Confounder Trap: Treatment-Encoding Representations in Causal Inference with Text

Discussant: Jeffrey Lockhart

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   StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
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   Projecting Agency: The Conversion of Power and Performative Pressure into Language
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   Quantifying Racial Disparities in Media Representations of Gun Violence at Scale

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   Inferring Candidate-Voter Issue Alignment from Agentically-crawled Campaign TextKevin Foley
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   The Garden of Forking PromptsAdvait Deshmukh, Nora Benedict, Melanie Walsh, Maria Antoniak
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   How Local Is Local Law? Measuring Textual Standardization Across U.S. Ordinance CodesDiag Davenport, Carl Illustrisimo
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   Can Large Language Models Read Industrial Policy? Expert Benchmarks and a Validated Pipeline for Sector Targeting in ChinaSiying Cao, Wei Chen
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   Representing Evaluation in Collective Deliberation: Studying Gender Disparities in Wikipedia Deletion DiscussionsKhandaker Tasnim Huq, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
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   Assumption Regression: A Failure Mode of Large Language Models in Social Science ResearchSarah K Dreier, Emily Kalah Gade, Sofia Serrano, Lucy H. Lin
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   Setting the Gold Standard for Automated Policy Coding – The CAPBENCH-English Benchmark Dataset and Leaderboard for the Comparative Agendas ProjectMiklós Sebők
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   Validating LLMs in social science: Emerging norms and epistemic threats from a systematic analysisMeera Desai, Dallas Card, Abigail Z. Jacobs
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   The Impact of AI on Social Media-Based Research: Measuring AI-Generated Content Across Platforms, Modalities, and TimeMaty Bohacek, Sergey Sanovich
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    An Empirical Investigation of Systematization Forms in GenAI EvaluationKimberly Le Truong, Emily Sheng, Hannah Washington, Solon Barocas, Hanna Wallach
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    Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion AnalysisLiancheng Gong, Zhiyang Wang, Yiwei Xu, Julia Mendelsohn
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    Beyond Topic Models: Analysing the United Nations Documentary RecordFrancesco Ignazio Re
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    From Telegram Reports to Interception Data: Reconstructing Russian Aerial Attacks on UkraineTaylor Cox
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    Measurement and Impacts of Patient AntagonismDaisy Lu
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    Sociolinguistic Mobility: A Lens for LLM Pretraining Data CurationJessica Wang
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    MMCRCHR: An Evidence-Grounded Agentic AI Research Workbench for the Humanities+Jeffrey Tharsen, Tianfang Zhu, Clovis Gladstone
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    Affect is All You Need: Affective Polarization in Anonymous Political DiscussionsEmily Zou, Jennifer Pan
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    Mapping the Space Between: Ecological and Relational Proximity in Environmental Governance NetworksXiao Shi
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    LLMs in Inductive Work: A FrameworkHope Schroeder, Su Lin Blodgett, Hanna Wallach, Solon Barocas
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    How Do Stories Influence Online Conversations?Joel Mire, Sophie Wu, Karina H Halevy, Jocelyn J Shen, Maria Antoniak, Steven R Wilson, Andrew Piper, Maarten Sap
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    Understanding AI Cases in the U.S. CourtsDawson Petersen, Eilat Herman, Katherine Conhaim, Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider
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    Three Years of r/ChatGPT: Societal Impact Evaluations from Social Media DataJessica Dai, Sean Garcia, Emma Pierson, Benjamin Recht, Nika Haghtalab
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    AI-Mediated Conversations for Geopolitical Persuasion: Evidence from TaiwanTracy Weener, Ho Chun Herbert Chang
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    Taking Turns: Natural Language Inference on Interview DataTom Einhorn
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    Historical Vestige in Public Discussion: Commensurable Knowledge Graphs and What Persisted After the Reversal of China's One Child PolicyYehong Deng
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    Algorithmic Collusion by LLM Agents: Extracting Pricing Policies and Price RepresentationsPatrick Y. Wu
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    How Do People Challenge Racial Stereotypes Online? Counter-Story Detection Across Reddit CommunitiesUma Gunturi, Jimin Mun, Maarten Sap, Maria Antoniak
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    A Pragmatics-Grounded Taxonomy of Norm Violations in Human–AI ConversationsJuhyun Oh, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hannah Washington

Discussant: David Bamman

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   From Text to Large-n Datasets: Applying lessons about human coder disagreement to machine coders
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   Decoding, Denoising, and Deciphering the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries with LLMs and Science-Informed Bayesian Models
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   APPEAL: Attributing Persuasive Power to Expert-Specified Actions in LLMs

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   Evaluating the Use of Synthetic Data in Humanities PretrainingCraig Messner
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   Measuring Family Identity Signaling from Political Campaign BiographiesJoy Youn Soo Kim
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   Semi-Automatic Discourse Networks: Method, Software, and a First ApplicationRyan Williams
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   In Your Own Words: Computationally Identifying Interpretable Themes from Free-Text Survey DataJenny Shan Wang, Aliya Saperstein, Emma Pierson
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   The Ideal Surveytaker Problem: Language Models and the Limits of Silicon SamplesAlexis K Palmer
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   Transition of Language in the Catholic Church: Analysis of Linguistic Shifts in Papal Encyclicals Pre vs. Post-Vatican IISimon Dovan Nguyen
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   Universal Feature DictionariesKenny Peng, Jon Kleinberg, Nikhil Garg
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   Measuring Academic Written Register at Scale: Automated Text Features in 16,505 Student EssaysSining Tao, Bailey Buchanan
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   Selective Public Uptake of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Campaign across Seven Online PlatformsHaoning Xue, Yue Li, Benjamin Lyons, Andy J. King
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    Do LLMs Distort Public Opinion? Comparing Respondent Representation Across Topic Modelling ArchitecturesMasha Krupenkin, Andrew Gordon, David Rothschild
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    What do language models know about the past? Recovering perspectival knowledge using large-scale language modelsLaura Nelson, Tom Einhorn, Yash Mali
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    Standardizing Culture before Mass Schooling: The Examination State and Regulated Verse in Tang ChinaZhaomin Li
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    The Survey Sampling Roots of Prediction-Powered Inference: Implications for Text as Data ResearchReagan Mozer
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    Freezing and Thawing in Text: Binomial Order as a Measure of Cultural ChangeKatherine Van Koevering
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    Subsidizing the Messenger: How Connected Owners Shape Economic NewsBahar Zafer
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    The Art of Saying Nothing: Measuring Discursive Self-Censorship in Institutional Art Discourse Across Political RegimesXinyuan Hou, Jiedong Zhang
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    Assessing Coders (Human and AI) Without Gold LabelsKarl Rohe
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    Suspense in Short Fiction: Testing Theory Pluralism against LLMs’ Intrinsic ConceptsSvenja Guhr
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    Measuring the Reach and Extremism of Podcasts that Feature U.S. PoliticiansBenjamin Roger Litterer, Amber Boydstun, Dallas Card, David Jurgens
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    Are Economists Open to AI? A Text-as-Data-as-Survey Approach via Language ModelsLei Ge, Yi Wang
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    What Do Conversation-Level Language Measures Measure? Evidence From a Randomized Experiment With an LLM Health ChatbotQiyao Peng, Jiaying Liu
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    Which Documents Deserve an Expensive Second Look? Measuring Corpus Quality under a Fixed Adjudication BudgetNicholas James
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    TOPICBench: A Systematic Evaluation of LLMs for Labeling Latent TopicsAya Salim, Adam Visokay, Henry George Xu, Michael Lachanski
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    What Are They Gating? Context Engineering Evidence and Political Censorship in Large Language ModelsTongzhou Liu, Yifan Tian
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    Deeds into Data: A Living Citation Graph for Georeferencing County Land RecordsOliver Payne Dahl
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    Measuring Personal Culture in Open-ended RespondingAlejandro Sarria
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    The Substance of Union Contracts: Measuring the Generosity of U.S. Collective Bargaining Agreements at ScaleMatthew Bramwell Bone, Prashant Garg, Chenxi Li, Zachary Parolin