Augmenting Rating-Scale Measures with Text-Derived Items Using the Information-Determined Scoring (IDS) Framework

ArXi:2510.08663v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Psychological assessments commonly rely on rating-scale items, which require respondents to condense complex experiences into predefined categories. Although rich, unstructured text is often captured alongside these scales, it rarely contributes to measuring the target trait because it lacks direct mapping to the latent scale. We