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Christopher Klamm 🏔️

@cklamm.bsky.social
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👨‍🔬 NLProc & CSS (UMannheim, UCologne & OxCPS group) 🚀 tada.cool co-organizer 🎓 MSc CS & MA PolSci ✨ rhetoric, framing & open science 👣 prev. MZES, BigScience, UKPlab & COSS_eth 🌲 linktr.ee/chkla

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
What can surveys miss when respondents choose the same answer option? In this pre-print, we argue that public opinion research needs not only to know where respondents stand, but how they think. AI Conversational Interviewing is one way to make that observable at scale
AI Conversational Interviewing: Scaling Up Semi-Structured and In-depth Interviews
Public opinion research has long faced a trade-off between depth and scale: standardized surveys enable large-scale measurement but restrict respondents to researcher-defined categories, obscuring the diversity of unexpected considerations that underlie public sentiment. More conversational interviews provide richer insights through open-ended probing, but their reliance on trained human interviewers has kept them difficult to scale. This study introduces AI Conversational Interviewing as a method for collecting open-ended public opinion data at scale, pursuing three objectives: to demonstrate the analytical value of conversational text data for questions beyond the reach of closed-ended items; to assess the method's practical viability through participants' own evaluations; and to inform implementation by experimentally comparing voice-based, chat-based, and free-choice interview modes. We conducted a study combining an AI-led interview with a standardized survey on migration policy among 571 respondents recruited via Prolific and Payback Panel. The findings establish AI Conversational Interviewing as a viable and valuable addition to the social-science toolkit. The conversational transcripts surface considerations and reasoning that a comprehensive standardized battery does not capture such as markedly different mental models of migration among subgroups with similar attitudes levels. Among respondents who completed the interview, evaluations of the AI interview were at or above those of the standardized survey across modes, although completion itself varied by condition. By releasing open data and open-source pipeline materials, the study contributes to a growing literature on harnessing artificial intelligence to expand the methods of public opinion measurement.
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Franzi Weeber @franziweeber.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨 Final Call for Papers: CPSS @ #KONVENS2026 🚨 Join us in Hamburg on September 14 (14.00-17.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00) to share your research at the intersection of NLP and social/political science. ⏳ Deadline: July 3, 2026 (23:59 CET) 🌐 sites.google.com/view/cpss202... #CompSocSci #NLP #CFP (1/3)
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CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS
This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📣 Deadline approaching: July 3. The next round of the "Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences" workshop takes place in Hamburg ⚓️(w/ KONVENS) on September 14-15. With just a couple of weeks left, we're excited to see what you'll send our way ⬇️ sites.google.com/view/cpss202...
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CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS
This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...
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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Join us in an hour! (17:00 Berlin time)
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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Happening Today!
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool
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Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What a great initiative and research program 👩🏽‍🔬 by the Oxford Computational Political Science Group this year, and I am more than happy to be part of it and contribute to CPS in this setting. Check out the ongoing projects www.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-compu.... A lot to come 🚀
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
✨ We (w/ Bastián González-Bustamante & Steffen Eckhard) are excited to announce a special issue on “From Appendix to Spotlight: Validation Standards in Text-as-Data Political Science" in PS: Political Science & Politics. We’d love to see many of you submit. 🗓 Nov 1, 2026 apsanet.org/publications...
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Calls for Papers - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Please find active calls for papers for PS: Political Science and Politics below.PS: Political Science & Politics features timely,
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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!
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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 17/12/2025
CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you! It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars. We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset". If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
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Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series! This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue. If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Mark your calendars! 🚨 We look forward to @cc-tp.bsky.social joining us for the last talk before the ☀️ break! Next Wednesday, May 28, at 17:00 (CEST) she will talk about detecting gender biased norms in political speech. More details on the #TaDa Speaker Series & how to join the talk ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 Just a month until the CPSS deadline (June 13, AoE). Super excited for the upcoming round and can’t wait to see your submissions ✨
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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Deadline extension! By the 10th of May submit an abstract and join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods" workshop at #ICWSM
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🕔 We're excited to start in just 30 minutes (5pm Berlin time). Come join us for a fascinating talk by @taniseceron.bsky.social on "Evaluating Political Bias: Insights into Robustness and Multilinguality". We can’t wait to see many of you there ⬇️
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Fantastic first day at #COMPTEXT2025. Really enjoyed spreading the word about efficient LLMs 🌱✨🦙 in our workshop (w/ Julia Romberg) today. Many thanks to everyone who joined us 💚. Excited for more packed conference days ahead 🚀
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🔜 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 will also be in Albuquerque at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 (@NAACL) next week. If you’re around, say hi to Quirin who will be there and check out our latest work (May 4, 09:00-17:30) ⬇️
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824 Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨ 🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series (tada.cool) this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), we have the pleasure of welcoming @taniseceron.bsky.social to share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
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Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The TADA Speaker Series is thrilled to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk to present his research on causal claims in economics! 🎙 Prashant Garg: Causal Claims in Economics 📅 March 19, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time 🔗 Subscribe for details: tada.cool See you next week!
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TADA ✨ Initiative
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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️
The flyer shows the overview of the programme for the Text-as-Data Spring Term Speaker Series 2025, which usually takes place on Wednesdays at 5pm Berlin time.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
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Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research
Call for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research.
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣 sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... #polisky
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Anka Reuel ➡️ NeurIPS @ankareuel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Super excited for the next talk (Wed 27.11. 5pm Berlin time 🕔) in our speaker series by Caterina Chiopris. Can't wait to see many of you there 😊 ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🚀 Start of the first @kodaqs.bsky.social Data Quality Academy. GESIS, LMU, and UMannheim are building an essential space for institutionalizing data quality 📚🔎 in social science research. Happy to be a part of the first round of researchers in this format.
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm very excited for this conference we're organising with the dvpw methods section. 🎉 Plus: there'll be a conference dinner and travel stipends are available. More info & links for application 👇
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” has recently come out in the US. If you're interested, in this thread I’ll link different ways of learning about the book and its argument (I’ll keep adding if more come out). First, here is the link to the book: academic.oup.com/book/57946
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Giuliano Formisano @giulianoformisano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just launched a Political Comm/NLP/Text-as-Data Starter Pack. 🦋🤗 Join us and/or drop a message to be added! go.bsky.app/39MWTjg #starterpack #polsci
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
🌟 We can't wait for our upcoming talk. Join us next Wednesday at 5pm(CET) for a talk by @humeyra.bsky.social on "Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding". Find more details below ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Really cool to see our study online. Amazing interdisciplinary teamwork ✨ w/ @kunkakom.bsky.social, Matthias Aßenmacher, Max M Lang, Quirin Würschinger and Frauke Kreuter. Check out the fantastic summary by @kunkakom.bsky.social for more details ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
📣 We are excited to announce that the tada.cool ✨ series is back w/ an incredible lineup for this 🍁 ❄️ term w/ @lexipalmer.bsky.social, @humeyra.bsky.social, @mlburnham.bsky.social, Caterina Chiopris & Tobias Hofmann ⬇️
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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Next Wednesday (📅 June 5) at 17:00, the last Text-as-Data Speaker Series talk for this spring term will take place feat. @jwaeckerle.bsky.social! Join us to learn more about the genderedness of parliamentary discourse and legislative power in a comparative perspective 🌟
The image shows the invitation for the next talk of the TaDa Reading Group by Jens Wäckerle, titled Undermining the Parliamentary Patriarchy: Women, Political Speech, and Power around the World. It takes place on Wednesday, June 5 at 17:00 Berlin time.
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
🎉 Join us this Wednesday at 🕒 3 pm CEST for a tada.cool talk on "How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data" by the amazing @ankuepfer.bsky.social ⬇️
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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Check this out!!🚨 @paugc.bsky.social and Hannah Béchara will present their latest work 'PolitiCause: Causality in Political Text' this Wednesday at 5pm (CET) on Zoom! More info on Slack (Zoom Link) or on tada.cool: join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
We are thrilled to announce that Gabriella Lapesa will join the tada.cool speaker series this Wednesday (Feb 7, 5pm CET) for a talk on "NLP-supported (e-)deliberation: interdisciplinary challenges and real-world applications". Find all the details on Slack ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...
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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
After a little break over the holidays, we're back next Wednesday with @rebeccakittel.bsky.social's talk on language complexity in parliamentary debate among populist politicians & their mainstream competitors. Join us on Jan 10 at 5pm (CET)! 🎉 Zoom link ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...
The TaDa Reading Group announces its next talk on January 10 at 5pm Berlin time, where Rebecca Kittel will present on language complexity in parliament.
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Before you start counting down the days to Christmas 🎄☃️❄️, join us for a pre-holiday surprise ⬇️
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
🥳 We are excited to announce that Moritz Laurer (twitter.com/MoritzLaurer) will be our next tada.cool speaker this Wednesday at 5pm (CEST) 🕔. We would be happy to have many of you join us on Zoom. You can find all the details on Slack ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...
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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Had an inspiring time ✨ at the Oxford|Berlin Open and Responsible Research Autumn School #OXBER. Look forward to sharing my learnings. Special thanks to Monica, Jackie, Ulf, and many more who made this happen. I highly recommend applying for the next round! ox.ukrn.org/events/#2023...
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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
🔊This Wednesday at 5 p.m., we have the distinct pleasure of having @indiiigo.bsky.social with us! You are more than welcome to join us on Zoom. Further details can be found on Slack: join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...
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