Greek-Reddit-BERT

A Greek topic classification model based on GREEK-BERT.
This model is fine-tuned on GreekReddit as part of our research article:
Mastrokostas, C., Giarelis, N., & Karacapilidis, N. (2024) Social Media Topic Classification on Greek Reddit
For more information see the evaluation section below.

Training dataset

The training dataset of Greek-Reddit-BERT is GreekReddit, which is a topic classification dataset.
Overall, GreekReddit contains 6,534 user posts collected from Greek subreddits belonging to various topics (i.e., society, politics, economy, entertainment/culture, sports).

Training configuration

We fine-tuned nlpaueb/bert-base-greek-uncased-v1 (113 million parameters) on the GreekReddit train split using the following parameters:

• GPU batch size = 16
• Total training epochs = 4
• Learning rate = 5e−5
• Dropout Rate = 0.1
• Number of labels = 10
• 32-bit floating precision
• Tokenization
  • maximum input token length = 512
  • padding = True
  • truncation = True

Evaluation

Example code

from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer, pipeline

model_name = 'IMISLab/Greek-Reddit-BERT'
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name) 

topic_classifier = pipeline(
    'text-classification',
    device = 'cpu',
    model = model,
    tokenizer = tokenizer,
    truncation = True,
    max_length = 512
)
    
text = 'Άλλες οικονομίες, όπως η Κίνα, προσπαθούν να διατηρούν την αξία του νομίσματος τους χαμηλά ώστε να καταστήσουν τις εξαγωγές τους πιο ελκυστικές στο εξωτερικό. Γιατί όμως θεωρούμε πως η πτωτική πορεία της Τουρκικής λίρας είναι η ""αχίλλειος πτέρνα"" της Τουρκίας;'
output = topic_classifier(text)
print(output[0]['label'])

Contact

If you have any questions/feedback about the model please e-mail one of the following authors:

giarelis@ceid.upatras.gr
cmastrokostas@ac.upatras.gr
karacap@upatras.gr

Citation

@article{mastrokostas2024social,
  title={Social Media Topic Classification on Greek Reddit},
  author={Mastrokostas, Charalampos and Giarelis, Nikolaos and Karacapilidis, Nikos},
  journal={Information},
  volume={15},
  number={9},
  pages={521},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}