Readings & resources: Qualitative analysis

L14 (October 27, 2026)
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Main readings

• Braun, V., Clarke, V. “Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology.” Qualitative Research in Psychology 2006.
• Roberts, K., Dowell, A., Nie, J.-B. “Attempting Rigour and Replicability in Thematic Analysis of Qualitative Research Data; a Case Study of Codebook Development.” BMC Medical Research Methodology 2019.

More on qualitative methods

• Braun, V., Clarke, V. “Reflecting on Reflexive Thematic Analysis.” Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 2019.
• Corbin, J., Strauss, A. “Grounded Theory Research: Procedures, Canons, and Evaluative Criteria.” Qualitative Sociology 1990.

Qualitative perspectives in NLP

• Röttger, P., Vidgen, B., Hovy, D., Pierrehumbert, J. “Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks.” NAACL 2022. PDF
• Gururaja, S., Bertsch, A., Na, C., Widder, D., Strubell, E. “To Build Our Future, We Must Know Our Past: Contextualizing Paradigm Shifts in Natural Language Processing.” EMNLP 2023. PDF
• Michael, J. et al. “What Do NLP Researchers Believe? Results of the NLP Community Metasurvey.” ACL 2023. PDF
• Wallach, H. et al. “Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge.” ICML 2025. PDF

Further resources (books)

• Denzin, N. K., Lincoln, Y. S. (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd ed. Sage, 2005. (Print, CMU Libraries)
• Creswell, J. W., Poth, C. N. Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches, 5th ed. Sage, 2023. (Print, CMU Libraries)