A new arXiv paper highlights a significant flaw in using keyword lexicons to measure rhetorical stance in computational social science. Researchers found that keyword-based scoring of interviews with public intellectuals showed a strong correlation with certainty, but this correlation dramatically decreased when using LLM-based semantic classification. The study suggests that keyword lexicons may be measuring a general tendency for emphatic vocabulary to co-occur with negative discourse, rather than actual rhetorical stance or epistemic certainty. AI
IMPACT Highlights potential inaccuracies in current AI-driven text analysis methods, suggesting a need for more sophisticated semantic understanding.
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