Schedule

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)

• Tutorial: How to Query LLMs / Pitfalls in Prompting / Caution in Prompting (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
                  Darryl J. Pines, President, University of Maryland
                  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
                  Meredith Kleykamp, BSOS Associate Dean for Research, University of Maryland

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

3:00 pm – Afternoon snack break

3:30 pm – Panel Discussion followed by Q&A
                  Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
                 David Rothschild, Economist, Microsoft Research

4:30 pm – Closing remarks – Where from here?
5:00 pm Workshop Ends

Registration Fees:

General Registration Fee: $200
Student Registration Fee: $100

Program Fees include all-day access to the workshop, one short course, continental breakfast, and lunch.