* *Call for Papers, APSA Preconference on Language Models in Social Science
(LMiSS) **

Colleagues

UPenn’s Department of Political Science and Princeton’s Department of
Politics are co-hosting an APSA pre-conference at the University of
Pennsylvania on Language Models in Social Science. The conference will take
place on September 4, 2024. This is the Wednesday before the American
Political Science Association meeting, which will take place in
Philadelphia.

The conference website is here, and is now open to applications (closing
April 19):

https://arthurspirling.org/LMiSS/

(see "Application to Present, Discuss and Attend" half way down the page)

Me and Nick Pangakis (https://www.npangakis.com/) are the hosts -- please
drop us a line with any problems/concerns/questions.  Conference
overview/CFP follows below.

Best wishes
AS
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*Language Models in Social Science*

This pre-conference will bring together researchers interested in the study
of (large) language models (LMs) and their application for the study of
social science questions. Our four focus areas for the conference include,
but are not limited to, papers that demonstrate…

- optimal use of existing LMs in research, including their potential
promise and pitfalls
- new technical advances in LMs of interest to the social science community
- the effects of LMs on society, the economy or governance
- extensions of LMs and related technologies like DNNs or transformer-based
models to new types of non-text data, such as audio or visual.

Anyone may submit a paper on any related theme, but we are particularly
keen to ensure that presenters receive constructive, focussed, thoughtful
and thorough feedback from (multiple) discussants. With that in mind, we
encourage the submission of work that is not yet published, but that is far
enough developed such that comments are likely to be helpful and
actionable. Given the expected audience of applied researchers, papers with
a substantive focus are likely to be the best fit but no type of paper is
unwelcome at the submission stage.

Because the pre-conference takes place a day before the 2024 APSA
conference, we will not provide funding for transport or lodging. For those
who are accepted to participate, we will provide breakfast and lunch.

https://arthurspirling.org/LMiSS/


-- 
Class of 1987 Professor of Politics
Princeton University
http://arthurspirling.org/

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