SoDa Workshop: “New Directions: Bridging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Survey Research at SurvAI-Day”
Date/Time: Monday, October 7, 2024 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, Orem Alumni Hall
UMD students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends—join us for the SoDa SurvAI Workshop!
Description:
The SurvAI Workshop is hosted by the Social Data Science Center (SoDa) and the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute (AIM) at the University of Maryland with support from the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), The Washington-Baltimore Chapter of AAPOR (DC-AAPOR), and the American Statistical Association (ASA).
The workshop aims to strengthen the emerging connection between NLP and survey researchers. Survey researchers and data collectors are increasingly recognizing the need to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into their workflows. At the same time, NLP researchers see the importance of grounding their models with better data for accurate public representation as technology is becoming increasingly human-facing. This event seeks to foster joint work between the survey research and NLP communities, identify gaps and needs, and initiate a closer relationship between these interconnected fields.