Designing an Auditable LLM-Supported Workflow for Qualitative Thematic Analysis

arXiv:2608.30543 · cs.AI, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Terminology

• Thematic Analysis — 12× in this paper
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contextual Awareness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Nadia — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted: A Case for Safe Qualitative AI
• Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model
• Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback
• Large Language Models in Thematic Analysis: Prompt Engineering, Evaluation, and Guidelines for Qualitative Software Engineering Research
• A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models
• LLM-Assisted Thematic Analysis: Opportunities, Limitations, and Recommendations

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