Papers with survey methods
When do Word Embeddings Accurately Reflect Surveys on our Beliefs About People? (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | a study of word embeddings shows that social biases are more accurate than survey data for some dimensions of meaning. |
| Approach: | a new study investigates the extent to which word embeddings accurately reflect biases . they find that biased word embeds mirror survey data across 17 dimensions of social meaning . |
| Outcome: | a new study shows that word embeddings accurately reflect biases on average across dimensions of social meaning . biased embedders are more reflective of survey data for some dimensions of meaning than others, the study finds . |
Evaluating Large Language Models for Belief Inference: Mapping Belief Networks at Scale (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Beliefs are interconnected, influencing how people process and update what they think. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a finetuned GPT-4o model to infer belief structures from large-scale social media data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can recover belief structures from large social media data, allowing for a level of scalability and efficiency that is impossible using traditional survey methods. |