Thematic Analysis with Large Language Models: does it work with languages other than English? A targeted test in Italian

arXiv:2404.08488v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper proposes a test to perform Thematic Analysis (TA) with Large Language Model (LLM) on data which is in a different language than English. While there has been initial promising work on using pre-trained LLMs for TA on data in English, we lack any tests on whether these models can reasonably perform the same analysis with good quality in other language. In this paper a test will be proposed using an open access dataset …

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