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Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning

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Sociological Methods & Research

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Abstract

Sociological Methods & Research, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 501-567, May 2026.
Large language models (LLMs) have tremendous potential for social science research as they are trained on vast amounts of text and can generalize to many tasks. We explore the use of LLMs for supervised text classification, specifically the application to ...