AcademiaOS: Automating Grounded Theory Development in Qualitative Research with Large Language Models
This addresses the problem of automating qualitative analysis for researchers, but it is a first attempt and likely incremental in applying existing LLM capabilities.
The paper tackles automating grounded theory development in qualitative research using large language models, with a user study (n=19) showing acceptance and potential to augment humans.
AcademiaOS is a first attempt to automate grounded theory development in qualitative research with large language models. Using recent large language models' language understanding, generation, and reasoning capabilities, AcademiaOS codes curated qualitative raw data such as interview transcripts and develops themes and dimensions to further develop a grounded theoretical model, affording novel insights. A user study (n=19) suggests that the system finds acceptance in the academic community and exhibits the potential to augment humans in qualitative research. AcademiaOS has been made open-source for others to build upon and adapt to their use cases.