Social Choice with Text: Collective Decision Making in the LLM Era

The recent rapid advances in natural language processing (NLP) and the development of large language models (LLMs) open up new research directions in other areas of AI, including the broad area of decision making. In this position paper we identify a novel research agenda for the field of computational social choice by charting the significant range of opportunities for integrating text-processing algorithms into the design and analysis of mechanisms for collective decision making.