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Last fall Prof. Ratkovic, his colleague Thomas Gschwend and Springer Nature  organized a hackathon with 22 international participants to explore how AI can support or facilitate scientific writing. A new article by Jan-Martin Wiarda discusses some of the results as well as perspectives by Prof. ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the University:Future Festival 2025, which took place on May 13 to 15, 2025 in Berlin, Braunschweig, Nürnberg, Graz / Austria, Zurich / Switzerland and online. His talk was titled „Academic Writing: A Field Experiment Testing GPT's Ability to Foster Clarity and ...

We welcome Jacob Chen to the group!  Jacob Chen joined the group as a research assistant in the beginning of May. Currently enrolled in the Mannheim Master in Data Science program, his research focuses on leveraging Large Language Models to enhance the quality of scientific writing. Working ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the 7th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2025, The Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text-, Image- and Video-as-Data, which took place on April 24 to 26 in Vienna / Austria. His talk was titled “Using LLMs ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the PolMeth Europe 2025, the conference of The Society of Political Methodology, which took place on April 7 and 8 in London / U.K.. His talk was titled “Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem ...

Prof. Ratkovic visited the group of Asst. Prof. Romain Ferrali at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and gave a talk entitled “Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem, Regression, and Concordance”. The abstract reads: Text ...

With the start of the spring term we welcome two new researchers to our group! Dr. Matthew Robertson is joining us as a Post-Doctoral researcher. Matthew received his PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University under Benjamin Goldsmith, where his research focused on ...

Dr. Selim Yaman is leaving the team for a great new job opportunity at the Office for National Statistics (UK civil service) where he will be working as a Senior Data Scientist. Congratulations, Selim! We are sad to see you leave, but we wish you all the best for the future and a successful start in ...

Prof. Ratkovic and Henning Schoenenberger (Springer Nature) have been interviewed by the DUZ magazine on their view of AI in social sciences and publishing and their experiences in the recent hackaton, a cooperation project of the Ratkovic group and the Gschwend group from the University of Mannheim ...