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LinkTransformer: A Unified Package for Record Linkage with Transformer Language Models
Abhishek Arora, Melissa Dell
Linking information across sources is fundamental to a variety of analyses in social science, business, and government. While large language models (LLMs) offer enormous promise fo…
American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers
Melissa Dell, Jacob Carlson, Tom Bryan +7
Existing full text datasets of U.S. public domain newspapers do not recognize the often complex layouts of newspaper scans, and as a result the digitized content scrambles texts fr…
A Massive Scale Semantic Similarity Dataset of Historical English
Emily Silcock, Melissa Dell
A diversity of tasks use language models trained on semantic similarity data. While there are a variety of datasets that capture semantic similarity, they are either constructed fr…
Quantifying Character Similarity with Vision Transformers
Xinmei Yang, Abhishek Arora, Shao-Yu Jheng +1
Record linkage is a bedrock of quantitative social science, as analyses often require linking data from multiple, noisy sources. Off-the-shelf string matching methods are widely us…