Using natural language processing and machine learning to replace human content coders

• Published in: Psychological methods Vol. 29; no. 6; p. 1148
• Main Authors: Wang, Yilei, Tian, Jingyuan, Yazar, Yagizhan, Ones, Deniz S, Landers, Richard N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2024
• Subjects: Humans; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Psychology - methods; Qualitative Research; Reproducibility of Results

Content analysis is a common and flexible technique to quantify and make sense of qualitative data in psychological research. However, the practical implementation of content analysis is extremely labor-intensive and subject to human coder errors. Applying natural language processing (NLP) technique...