Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?. (arXiv:2305.03514v1 [cs.CL])

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are capable of successfully
performing many language processing tasks zero-shot (without the need for
training data). If this capacity also applies to the coding of social phenomena
like persuasiveness and political ideology, then LLMs could effectively
transform Computational Social Science (CSS). This work provides a road map for
using LLMs as CSS tools. Towards this end, we contribute a set of prompting
best practices and an extensive evaluation pipeline to measure the zero-shot
performance …

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