Categorizing topics versus inferring attitudes: a theory and method for analyzing open-ended survey responses

W Hobbs, J Green - Political Analysis, 2024‏ - cambridge.org
Past work on closed-ended survey responses demonstrates that inferring stable political
attitudes requires separating signal from noise in “top of the head” answers to researchers' …

Measuring the Quality of Answers in Political Q&As with Large Language Models

RM Alvarez, J Morrier - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.08816, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a novel methodology for assessing the quality of answers in political
question-and-answer sessions. Our approach consists of measuring the quality of an …