AI New Code Suggestions

With AI Assist, you can automatically generate an inspiring list of potential new codes for a selected section of text. You can evaluate whether the suggestions are helpful for your analysis tasks, choose the most appropriate codes, and then MAXDQA will apply them to the selected text.

How to get new code suggestions using AI Assist

You can access the new code suggestion feature in any of the following ways: 

Using the AI Assist main menu

1. In the "Document Browser," choose the text passage for which you want new code suggestions.
2. Navigate to the main menu and select AI Assist > Text Selection > Suggest New Codes for Selected Text.

Using the "Document Broswer" toolbar

1. Select a text passage in the "Document Broswer."
2. Navigate to the AI Assist icon in the toolbar and select Suggest New Codes for Selected Text.

Using the selected text's context menu

1. Select a text passage in the "Document Broswer" and right-click on the selection.
2. In the context menu, select AI Assist > Suggest New Codes for Text Selection. 

Configure your AI suggestion preferences

1. In the dialog that appears, specify the desired language for the suggestions and confirm with OK. The language selected for the suggestions may differ from the coded segments' language; the coded segments may also vary in language.
2. MAXQDA will present a list of possible new codes. Select all suitable ones to apply to the selected text.
3. Click OK to confirm and finalize the new code assigment.

Understanding and managing new code suggestions

MAXQDA creates all selected codes at the top of the code system and assigns them to the selected text passage. The explanations are saved in the respective code memos. Please note that in some cases there is no explanation; then no code memo is created.

Typically, MAXQDA will present three separate sets of suggestions: the first two sets contain thematic codes, where the codes in the second tend to be more general. The third set contains codes that usually express more interpretation. You’re free to pick as many codes as you want from any of these groups.

Already existing codes are not considered for creating the suggestions. In this chapter you’ll find information on how you can easily merge similar codes in the code system.