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From Faces to Politics: Vision-Language Models (Sometimes) Link Visual Demographic Characteristics to Ideological Labels featured image

From Faces to Politics: Vision-Language Models (Sometimes) Link Visual Demographic Characteristics to Ideological Labels

PA · 2026

When AI models look at a political campaign photo, do they make assumptions about the candidate's ideology based on race or gender — even when the ad itself is completely neutral? …

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Soyeon Jeon
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Visual Cues of Gender and Race are Associated with Stereotyping in Vision-Language Models featured image

Visual Cues of Gender and Race are Associated with Stereotyping in Vision-Language Models

Working Paper · 2026

Examines how vision-language models respond to visual cues of gender and race, documenting systematic associations between demographic features in images and stereotyped outputs. …

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Messi H.J. Lee
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One Language is Enough: Using Transfer Learning to Detect Populist Rhetoric Across 25 Languages Without Translation featured image

One Language is Enough: Using Transfer Learning to Detect Populist Rhetoric Across 25 Languages Without Translation

Working Paper · 2026

Demonstrates how multilingual language models enable cross-lingual text analysis without translation. Fine-tuning a multilingual model on just one language matches the performance …

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Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans featured image

Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans

FAccT · 2024

Psychologists have long known that people tend to perceive minority and marginalized groups as more uniform and interchangeable than dominant groups — a phenomenon called …

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Messi H.J. Lee
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America's Racial Framework of Superiority and Americanness Embedded in Natural Language featured image

America's Racial Framework of Superiority and Americanness Embedded in Natural Language

PNAS Nexus · 2024

Uses computational analysis of large language corpora to uncover racial hierarchies embedded in American English. The study reveals systematic associations between race, perceived …

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validateIt: Crowdsourced Validation of Topic Models

R package for crowdsourced validation of topic models via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Creates and manages tasks that assess both topic coherence and label accuracy, integrating …

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Topics, Concepts, and Measurement: A Crowdsourced Procedure for Validating Topics as Measures featured image

Topics, Concepts, and Measurement: A Crowdsourced Procedure for Validating Topics as Measures

PA · 2022

Topic models have become one of the most popular tools for analyzing political text at scale — but are researchers actually checking whether the topics they find measure what they …

luwei-ying
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A Pairwise Comparison Framework for Fast, Flexible, and Reliable Human Coding of Political Texts featured image

A Pairwise Comparison Framework for Fast, Flexible, and Reliable Human Coding of Political Texts

APSR · 2017

Content-coding political texts is one of the most labor-intensive tasks in the discipline — but what if you could reliably outsource thousands of judgments to online workers …

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David Carlson
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