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Towards Coding Social Science Datasets with Language Models [PDF]
Researchers often rely on humans to code (label, annotate, etc.) large sets of texts. This kind of human coding forms an important part of social science research, yet the coding process is both resource intensive and highly variable from application to application.
Christopher Michael Rytting +6 more
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Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada [PDF]
The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure represents a significant issue of concern among people living with HIV, those working across the HIV sector, public health practitioners, and health and human rights advocates around the world. Recently, the government of Canada began a review of the criminal law regarding HIV non-disclosure and invited ...
Colin Hastings +20 more
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Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences
Transparency and peer control are cornerstones of good scientific practice and entail the replication and reproduction of findings. The feasibility of replications, however, hinges on the premise that original researchers make their data and research code publicly available.
Daniel Krähmer +2 more
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This study aimed to explain the development stages of an online coding application engine (SIGUN) according to the R2D2 instructional design model to support and develop cultural transfer in social sciences education and popularize the national culture. During the definition phase of R2D2, analyzes of needs, learner, task and content were made.
Zekeriya Fatih İNEÇ
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Promoting Novelty, Rigor, and Style in Energy Social Science: Towards Codes of Practice for Appropriate Methods and Research Design [PDF]
A series of weaknesses in creativity, research design, and quality of writing continue to handicap energy social science. Many studies ask uninteresting research questions, make only marginal contributions, and lack innovative methods or application to theory.
Benjamin K. Sovacool +2 more
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Augmenting traditional social science methods with computational analysis is crucial if we are to exploit the vast digital archives of text data that have become available over the past two decades. In this journal, Benites-Lazaro et al. (2018) showcase this in an application of topic modeling and other computational methods to an actor-specific ...
Finn Müller-Hansen +2 more
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New Curation Software: Step-by-Step Preparation of Social Science Data and Code for Publication and ...
Limor Peer, Stephanie Wykstra
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Ethical Codes and Ethical Control in the Social Sciences
This report discusses the colonial heritage and changes in the social position of anthropologists as reflected in the code of ethics of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It describes changes in the Association’s ethical guidelinessince 1948 and interprets them as reflections of changes in the social position of anthropologists.
Klaus Mäkelä
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This paper explores the twin issues of Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility among researchers and scholars, and gaps in theory and praxis as well. It also discusses the current application of ethics and objectivity in science, and discusses the need for change so as to highlight a scholar’s duties towards science, society and the education system.
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
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Data coding and harmonization: How DataCoH and Charmstats are transforming social science data
Comparative social researchers are often confronted with the challenge of making key theoretical concepts comparable across nations and/or time. One example is the socio-demographic variable 'Education'. To operationalize 'education' researchers must review multiple educational systems across nations and/or changing educational structures within one ...
Kristi Winters +2 more
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