Method note
Best practices for text annotation with LLMs (Törnberg, Sociologica 2024)
Open-access sociology essay with concrete rules for model choice, structured prompts, prompt-stability checks, validation and the ethics and legality of LLM annotation.
What is reported
Recommendation only; a checklist to cite in your methods section when you use LLM labels.
Before you use it
This is methodological guidance. Document your model and prompt choices and validate performance on the target corpus.
Sources and review
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Checked the journal abstract. This essay offers methodological recommendations rather than a guarantee of annotation accuracy.
License and reuse
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