ConvoKit Version 3.4.0 and 3.4.1

We’re excited to announce ConvoKit 3.4.0, which includes:

• New TransformerDecoderModel and TransformerEncoderModel classes, enabling the use of LLMs for forecasting tasks.
• An expanded CGA-CMV corpus, now containing 19,578 conversations and 116,793 comments.

Version 3.4.1 addresses issues reported by @kakeith, including MacOS installation problems caused by unsupported dependency packages and a download error for the FOMC Corpus. This update introduces:

• A new optional installation target for LLM-related packages required by certain transformers (currently Forecaster, Redirection, Pivotal Moments, and Utterance Simulator). These can be installed via: pip install 'convokit[llm]'.

We appreciate the efforts of all contributors in making this release, and thank @kakeith for raising the issue that helped us improve!