Challenge: Social science NLP tasks require large data to capture semantics and implicit pragmatics.
Approach: They propose an open-source instruction tuning tool for social science NLP tasks that captures implicit pragmatic cues from text.
Outcome: The proposed model matches or improves on a state-of-the-art, multi-task finetuned model on 80% of social tasks.

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Challenge: Pre-trained large language models retain task-specific knowledge, but where and to what extent they retain it remains unexplored.
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