From Qualitative Text to Integrated Evidence: The Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI) Procedure

Elyas Irankhah, Ashley Hagaman, Samah Fodeh
10/13/2026
cs.CL

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Mixed methods research offers established strategies for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence, but less guidance for integrating two computational representations of the same qualitative corpus. This methodological study introduces Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI), a four-step procedure for explicit and traceable integration. We present PTI using 1,203 interview paragraphs from 29 mothers in Nepal. The two representations were ontology-guided Patient Voice (PV) coding with PVminer and data-driven themes generated through non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). A theme-complete crosswalk documented convergence, divergence, and preprocessing-sensitive differences. Depression status, based on Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores, served as a secondary external anchor for exploratory association checks. PTI provides a structured approach for integrating computational representations of qualitative text within mixed methods research.

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@article{irankhah2026from,
  title  = {From Qualitative Text to Integrated Evidence: The Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI) Procedure},
  author = {Elyas Irankhah and Ashley Hagaman and Samah Fodeh},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2610.19164},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19164v1}
}

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