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This study introduces a new computational text analysis method that requires less manual data and no machine learning expertise. It effectively integrates social scientists into the workflow for deeper insights from text data.

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Computational Social Science
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Social scientists face challenges in analyzing large text datasets due to manual annotation labor, technical complexity, and the gap between algorithms and theoretical understanding.
Existing computational text classification methods require significant human-labeled data and machine learning expertise, limiting accessibility for many researchers.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel approach for large-scale text analysis that minimizes the need for human-labeled data and machine learning expertise.
To efficiently integrate social scientists into the text analysis workflow, bridging the gap between computational methods and social science theory.
To enable the detection of statements in text using advanced language models and active learning principles.

Main Methods:

Utilized large language models pre-trained for natural language inference.
Implemented a "few-shot" threshold-tuning algorithm based on active learning principles.
Applied the approach to analyze tweets from the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign.
Benchmarked the proposed method against various computational approaches across three datasets.

Main Results:

The proposed approach requires substantially less human-labeled data compared to traditional methods.
The method demonstrates effectiveness in analyzing social media data, as shown by the 2020 U.S. election tweet analysis.
The approach successfully integrates social scientists into the analytical workflow, facilitating theory-driven insights.

Conclusions:

The developed text analysis approach lowers barriers to entry for social scientists, enabling broader use of computational methods.
This method facilitates the extraction of meaningful insights from large text corpora by combining advanced AI with social science expertise.
The approach offers a scalable and accessible solution for statement detection and analysis in social science research.