2 papers
cs.CL2026
Measuring Social Integration Through Participation: Categorizing Organizations and Leisure Activities in the Displaced Karelians Interview Archive using LLMs
Joonatan Laato, Veera Schroderus, Jenna Kanerva +3
Digitized historical archives make it possible to study everyday social life on a large scale, but the information extracted directly from text often does not directly allow one to…
cs.CL2025
Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMs
Joonatan Laato, Jenna Kanerva, John Loehr +2
We performed a zero-shot information extraction study on a historical collection of 89,339 brief Finnish-language interviews of refugee families relocated post-WWII from Finnish Ea…