Schedule

Presentation Slides in links below

Schedule of Events:

8:00 am – Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – Short Courses

• Computer Assisted Qualitative Content Analysis (Philip Resnik)

• Automated Comment Categorization using Naive Bayes and Python (Tyler Waite)

• Collecting High Quality Training Data: Lessons from 20 years in Surveys (Stephanie Eckman)

• Collecting High Quality Training Data: Lessons from 20 years in Surveys (Xinpeng Wang and Philipp Mondorf)

• Fine Tuning LLMs for Data Augmentation and Synthesis (Tobias Holtdirk and Caro Haensch)

10:30 am – Breakout sessions

• How can LLMs be used for survey operations? (Claire Kelley and Quirin Wünschinger)

• Synthetic respondents / data / values / opinion / attitudes embedded in the LLMs (Yongwei Yang)

• Pathways for Advancing Survey Research with LLMs / How survey research might help build next gen LLMs (Trent Buskirk)

• Using ML learning to improve analysis of open ended questions (Bolei Ma and Sarah Kelley)

• What LLMs cannot do (Joshua Lerner)

• Using Chatbots as Interviewers (Max Lang)

12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Welcome and remarks
                  Jennifer King Rice, Senior Vice President and Provost, University of Maryland
                  Gregory F. Ball, Vice President for Research, University of Maryland
                  Sheena Erete, AIM Associate Director, University of Maryland
                  Susan Rivera, Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

1:30 pm   Keynote

  Bridging NLP & Survey Research: On LLMs, Language and Trust – An NLP researcher’s perspective

                  Barbara Plank, Vice-president elect, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Leveraging AI for Survey Statistics and Survey Research

                  Frauke Kreuter, President, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)

2:30 pm – Panel Discussion followed by Q&A
                  David Jurgens, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
                  Ani Nenkova, Principal Scientist, Adobe Research
                  Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Staff Research Scientist, Google

3:30 pm – Afternoon snack break

3:45 pm – Panel Discussion followed by Q&A
                   Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
                   David Rothschild, Economist, Microsoft Research

4:45 pm – Closing remarks – Where from here?
5:00 pm Workshop Ends