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Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science? [PDF]

International Conference on Computational Logic, 2023
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify and explain social phenomena like persuasiveness and political ideology ...
Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Omar Shaikh, Jiaao Chen, Zhehao Zhang, Diyi Yang   +5 more
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Can Generative AI improve social science? [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Generative AI that can produce realistic text, images, and other human-like outputs is currently transforming many different industries. Yet it is not yet known how such tools might influence social science research.
Bail CA.
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For a heterodox computational social science

Big Data & Society, 2021
The proliferation of digital data has been the impetus for the emergence of a new discipline for the study of social life: ‘computational social science’.
Petter Törnberg, J. Uitermark
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help ...
J. V. Bavel, Katherine Baicker, Paulo S Boggio, V. Capraro, Aleksandra Cichocka, Aleksandra Cichocka, M. Cikara, M. Crockett, A. Crum, K. M. Douglas, James N. Druckman, J. Drury, Oeindrila Dube, N. Ellemers, E. Finkel, J. Fowler, M. Gelfand, Shihui Han, S. Haslam, J. Jetten, S. Kitayama, D. Mobbs, L. Napper, D. Packer, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, R. Petty, David G. Rand, S. Reicher, S. Schnall, A. Shariff, L. Skitka, S. Smith, C. Sunstein, Nassim Tabri, Joshua A. Tucker, S. Linden, P. Lange, Kim A. Weeden, Michael J. A. Wohl, Jamil Zaki, S. Zion, Robb Willer   +42 more
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Report summary - The Direct Economic Burden of Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Canada: An Analysis of Health Care Costs by Income Level

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2016
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Social Determinants and Science Integration Directorate, Public Health Agency of Canada
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Missed Opportunities? Covid-19, Biosecurity and One Health in the United Kingdom

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Whatever we read about Covid-19, the word unprecedented is not far away: whether in describing policy choices, the daily death tolls, the scale of upheaval, or the challenges that await a readjusting world.
Gareth Enticott, Damian Maye
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Social sciences research in neglected tropical diseases 3: Investment in social science research in neglected diseases of poverty: a case study of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [PDF]

, 2011
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.BACKGROUND: The level of funding provides a good proxy for the level of commitment or prioritisation given to a particular issue.
C Frank, D McCoy, Daniel Reidpath, DD Reidpath, Gates Foundation, GF Anderson, International Health Group of the Centre for Public Health Research at Brunel University P, IPPPH, JL Leroy, K Buse, M Moran, M Moran, M Parker, P Allotey, Pascale Allotey, PJ Hotez, SH Woolf, Subhash Pokhrel, TDR   +18 more
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Computational Social Science and Sociology.

The Annual review of sociology, 2020
The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies computational methods to novel sources of digital data such as social media, administrative ...
Achim Edelmann, T. Wolff, Danielle Montagne, C. Bail   +3 more
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Machine Learning Techniques for Sentiment Analysis of COVID-19-Related Twitter Data

IEEE Access, 2023
On Twitter, COVID-19 is a highly discussed topic. People worldwide have used Twitter to express their viewpoints and feelings during the pandemic.
Niklas Braig, Alina Benz, Soeren Voth, Johannes Breitenbach, Ricardo Buettner   +4 more
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In defence of exploratory research: A reply to critics

South African Journal of Science, 2020
My Commentary ‘Why are black South African students less likely to consider studying biological sciences?’ (S Afr J Sci. 2020;116(5/6)) has been criticised on a variety of grounds.
Nicoli Nattrass
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