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Comparing LLM and Human Expert Coding in Qualitative Research: A Case Study on Emotional Intelligence

2026-08-21

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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for qualitative coding, yet it remains unclear how closely their coding outputs align with frameworks developed by human experts. Existing studies tend to report overall similarity but rarely distinguish thematic granularity from dimension-level semantic alignment or systematically identify which constructs are stably recovered. This study therefore compares human...

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Literature Corpus work: 4cdc8b39-6ebc-5ef2-8432-d7f5d45b85e7
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.1489.v1

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