Language Models in Sociological Research: An Application to Classifying Large Administrative Data and Measuring Religiosity
Abstract
Computational methods have become widespread in the social sciences, but probabilistic language models remain relatively underused. We introduce language models to a general social science readership. First, we offer an accessible explanation of language models, detailing how they estimate the probability of a piece of language, such as a word or sentence, on the basis of the linguistic context. Second, we apply language models in an...
Paper Details
Title
Language Models in Sociological Research: An Application to Classifying Large Administrative Data and Measuring Religiosity
Published Date
Oct 25, 2021
Journal
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
30 - 52
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