Pre-Trained Language Models as Zero-Shot Tools for Social Science Research

Overview

arXiv:2610.19048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Record linkage and demographic inference from names are routine demands in social science. Most approaches to these problems require labeled training data that are difficult or costly to acquire. I show that pre-trained language models perform both tasks accurately without requiring task-specific training. For record linkage, I introduce EnsembleLink, an algorithm that uses pre-trained embeddings alongside string-based scorers to retrieve a short l

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