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A tutorial on fine-tuning pretrained language models: Applications in social and behavioral science research.

Behavior research methods
Natural language is a primary medium for expressing thoughts and emotions, making text analysis a vital tool in psychological research. It enables insights into personality traits, mental health, and sentiment in interpersonal communication. Traditio...

Academic discourse on ChatGPT in social sciences: A topic modeling and sentiment analysis of research article abstracts.

PloS one
The rapid emergence of ChatGPT has sparked extensive academic discourse across multiple fields. This study focuses on such discourse within the social sciences by examining how scholars frame and evaluate ChatGPT through research article abstracts. D...

A Looking Glass into a Research Wonderland: Decades of Virtual Reality Scholarship Explicated Via Natural Language Processing.

Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
How has the field of virtual reality (VR) evolved and what type of research has made an impact? We used natural language processing techniques and generative artificial intelligence to develop the most complete review of experimental social science V...

Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research.

Science and engineering ethics
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into critical domains such as healthcare holds immense promise. Nevertheless, significant challenges must be addressed to avoid harm, promote the well-being of individuals and societies, and ensure ethically s...

Evaluating Explanations From AI Algorithms for Clinical Decision-Making: A Social Science-Based Approach.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques generate explanations for predictions from AI models. These explanations can be evaluated for (i) faithfulness to the prediction, i.e., its correctness about the reasons for prediction, and (ii) us...

Algorithmic bias: Social science research integration through the 3-D Dependable AI Framework.

Current opinion in psychology
Algorithmic bias has emerged as a critical challenge in the age of responsible production of artificial intelligence (AI). This paper reviews recent research on algorithmic bias and proposes increased engagement of psychological and social science re...

Verbal behavior and the future of social science.

The American psychologist
Natural language processing (NLP)-previously the domain of a select few language and computer scientists-is undergoing an unprecedented surge in popularity across disciplines. The ubiquity of language data, alongside extremely rapid methodological in...

Can Generative AI improve social science?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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. I argue Generative AI has the pot...

AI and the transformation of social science research.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
Careful bias management and data fidelity are key.

The text-package: An R-package for analyzing and visualizing human language using natural language processing and transformers.

Psychological methods
The language that individuals use for expressing themselves contains rich psychological information. Recent significant advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning (DL), namely transformers, have resulted in large performance gain...