HICode

Code repository for EMNLP 2025 long paper HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs [Arxiv]

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Prerequisites

• OpenAI API credentials (for GPT-based models)
• Install dependencies (see below)

Installation

pip install requirements.txt

Quickstart

See demo.ipynb for a step-by-step example of how to use HICode for identifying the query types asked by astronomers.

Cite the work

If you use HICode in your research, please cite:

@misc{zhong2025hicodehierarchicalinductivecoding,
      title={HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs}, 
      author={Mian Zhong and Pristina Wang and Anjalie Field},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.17946},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17946}, 
}

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For more details, see the documentation or contact the authors.